Mika Rottenberg Sneeze to Squeeze
February 8 – June 2, 2013
Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden

  • Cheese (#2)
    2008
    multi-channel video installation
    dimensions variable
    ARG# RMK2008-006

  • Detail of:

    Cheese (#2)
    2008
    multi-channel video installation
    dimensions variable
    ARG# RMK2008-006

  • Tropical Breeze
    2004
    video sculpture
    3:45 minutes
    Edition of 5, 1AP
    ARG# RMK2004-003

  • Tropical Breeze
    2004
    video sculpture
    3:45 minutes
    Edition of 5, 1AP
    ARG# RMK2004-003

  • Detail of:

    Tropical Breeze
    2004
    video sculpture
    3:45 minutes
    Edition of 5, 1AP
    ARG# RMK2004-003

     

  • Time and a Half
    2003
    single channel video
    Duration: 3:40
    Edition of 5, 2AP
    ARG# RMK2003-001

  • Fried Sweat
    2008
    single channel video installation;
    one component of two-part collaboration
    duration: 2 minutes
    Edition of 5, 2AP
    ARG# RMK2008-057

  • Fried Sweat
    2008
    single channel video installation;
    one component of two-part collaboration
    duration: 2 minutes
    Edition of 5, 2AP
    ARG# RMK2008-057

  • Fried Sweat
    2008
    single channel video installation;
    one component of two-part collaboration
    duration: 2 minutes
    Edition of 5, 2AP
    ARG# RMK2008-057

  • Dough
    2005 – 2006
    Single channel video installation
    Duration 7 min.
    Dimensions variable

  • Dough
    2005 – 2006
    Single channel video installation
    Duration 7 min.
    Dimensions variable

  • Dough
    2005 – 2006
    Single channel video installation
    Duration 7 min.
    Dimensions variable

  • Mary's Cherries
    2004
    Single channel video installation
    Duration: 5:50 min.
    Dimension variable
    Edition of 5, 2AP
    ARG# RMK2004-004

  • Mary's Cherries
    2004
    Single channel video installation
    Duration: 5:50 min.
    Dimension variable
    Edition of 5, 2AP
    ARG# RMK2004-004

  • Squeeze
    2010
    Single channel video installation, digital c-print
    Video duration: 20 minutes
    Overall dimensions variable
    Edition of 6, 2AP
    ARG# RMK2010-027

  • Squeeze
    2010
    Single channel video installation, digital c-print
    Video duration: 20 minutes
    Overall dimensions variable
    Edition of 6, 2AP
    ARG# RMK2010-027

  • Left to right:
    Sneeze, 2012
    Single channel video, duration: 3:02 minutes. Overall dimensions variable
    Edition of 6, 2AP. ARG# RMK2012-010

    Squeeze, 2010
    Single channel video installation, digital c-print. Video duration: 20 minutes. Overall dimensions variable
    Edition of 6, 2AP. ARG# RMK2010-027

  • Sneeze
    2012
    Single channel video
    duration: 3:02 minutes
    Overall dimensions variable
    Edition of 6, 2AP
    ARG# RMK2012-010

  • Julie
    2003
    single channel video
    duration 3:30
    Edition of 5, 1AP
    ARG# RMK2003-002

  • Tsss
    2013
    Air conditioner, plant, hotplate, frying pan, water
    Dimensions variable
    ARG# RMK2013-016

  • Textures 1–6
    2013
    Polyurethane resin, acrylic paint
    Dimensions variable

  • Textures 1–6
    2013
    Polyurethane resin, acrylic paint
    Dimensions variable

Mika Rottenberg’s video installations show an imaginative world of surreal scenes where inane objects are produced in protracted processes resembling factory assembly lines. The workers in Rottenberg’s videos are often played by women who earn their living on their distinctive physical features, such as extreme obesity, muscularity, height or unusually long nails or hair. In the claustrophobic settings she constructs, these women engage in the production of maraschino cherries, dough, make-up and wet-wipes in the most astonishing ways. The sets Mika Rottenberg designs for the characters in her videos also partly extend into the exhibition space. The aesthetics of the mundane take on new significance when the web of production and consumption that surrounds us is experienced as both intimately familiar and intuitively unsettling.

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