Girl in a Blue Dress
Working in various mediums, Bacher utilizes technical flaws in her tools for their expressive potential, such as the stutter step of a faltering video camera used here to follow a teenage visitor to the Picasso Museum in Paris. The fractured and unstable space through which the artist’s quarry—who could be a slightly younger, reincarnated version of one of the Spanish master’s own models-turned-sexual conquests-turned-muses—is tracked dizzily is not unrelated to Picasso’s own Cubist quest for visual possession of the female form.
Artwork Details
- Title: Girl in a Blue Dress
- Artist: Lutz Bacher (American, died 2019)
- Date: 2002
- Medium: Single-channel digital video, color, silent, 5 min., 5 sec.
- Classification: Variable Media
- Credit Line: Purchase, Henry Nias Foundation Inc. Gift, 2012
- Object Number: 2012.2
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of Lutz Bacher
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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