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.
Click here for more information on the Magason 3 exhibition page
Upcoming monograph, published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. in association with the Rose Art Museum, on the occassion of Mika Rottenberg's first solo museum exhibition in the United States:
Mika Rottenberg: Bowls Balls Souls Holes
The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
February 14 - June 8, 2014