Ovid

Ruth Schnell

Ovid , 1996 – 1997

https://ruthschnell.org/en/works/ovid/

Mnemosyne

Last updated: 2021-07-09

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Description

Video installation
Series 'Bags'

A text from the sixth book of Metamorphoses runs from the foreground to the background on a three-dimensional "screen" consisting of 39 shopping bags. The tale of the weaving contest between Pallas Athena and Arachne, in which the challenge of the gods ends in Arachne's transformation into a spider, refracts in the three-dimensional topography of the bags.

Keywords

aesthetics
- projected
genres
- installations

technology
- displays
  - non-electronic displays
    - paper

Technology & Material

Hardware

Video projector, video player, videotape

Material

Video projector, video player, videotape, 39 paper bags, epoxy resin, acrylic paint

Exhibitions & Events

ARCO 2006

2006

prêt à porter

1998

Ruth Schnell

1997

Bibliography

Aigner, Carl. »Videoinstallationen.« EIKON 21/22 (1997).
Zillner, Christian. »Die Tragtasche als Informationstransformator.« Published in: Ruth Schnell, Lisi Hämmerle Gallery, Catalog, Bregenz.

2 publications