I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out what happened when you leave behind the voyeuristic mode and confront people with reality.… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own ideas, and in this regard it was a form of manipulation too. Subsequently, we've had to engage with… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then there was… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own ideas, and… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
My interest in time emerged out of an engagement with the media that I was working with. Film and performance are temporal media. They… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
