JUST PUTTING ON MY SHIRT

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Title: "JUST PUTTING ON MY SHIRT"
Year:
1995
Material: Video
Duration:
11'00"
Location: Het Vrieshuis Amerika Amsterdam
Sound: yes

Video for the exhibition in the Vrieshuis Amerika in Amsterdam titled: ‘Vrieshuis (Ice House) defrosts"

New layers are applied on her skin; working clothes of other people, layer for layer. Her body expands while she magnifies daily activities by repeating them. In the factory's changing room, where people strip off their working clothes in order to work or go home. When do the working clothes get their meaning and does this skin turn you into another person temporarily?

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