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Videoinstallatie: Woman's Work

Out of the urge to choreograph not only the body, but also the eye of the viewer and the categories of time and space, Annemijn Rijk (1993, Breda) created the life-sized dance film installation Woman's Work. Six screens show six women of different generations and backgrounds. Inspired by the idea of a catwalk as a clamping metaphor for the ideal female image, the women walk over a narrow, steel beam at a great height. Five screens show their individual portraits, their own journey within the for them dominant system. The sixth screen shows their joint resistance. While dancing, they balance mutual relationships, pressure, expectations and manipulation. The fall is inevitable. As is the drive to constantly search for how their flexible bodies can resist the static, steel beam.