Ever is Over All. Pipilotti Rist

Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962, Grabs, Switzerland), one of the most renowned video artists in the past three decades, began to earn fame in the 1980s when she brought the aesthetic of the videoclip to media art, along with other influences like popular culture, technology, and historical feminist videoart. She developed her own heavily sensorial and emotional style very early on.

This exhibition presents the two channel video installation Ever is Over All (1997), which shows a smiling woman wearing a light blue dress who breaks car windows as she walks along the sidewalk. This sequence is superimposed and even merged with other dreamlike images featuring different tropical flowers. Accompanied by a compelling, slowed-down soundtrack composed by Anders Guggisberg, the video offers a poetic atmosphere that immerses the viewer in a kind of magical realism where a flower becomes a destructive weapon, giving rise to a cathartic, hopeful gesture.