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> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valie-export/i-was-trying-to-develop-a-completely-new-nonvoyeuristic-approach-to/)

[Valie Export](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valie-export/)

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## More by Valie Export

> [Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then there was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valie-export/much-of-the-art-of-the-1960s-from-body-art-to-video-and-direct/)

[Valie Export](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valie-export/)

> [I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valie-export/i-was-trying-to-develop-a-completely-new-nonvoyeuristic-approach-to/)

[Valie Export](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valie-export/)

> [The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own ideas, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valie-export/the-female-body-has-always-been-a-construction-even-feminist-art-of/)

[Valie Export](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valie-export/)

> [Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valie-export/whenever-we-think-of-the-body-as-a-vessel-for-artistic-ideas-we/)

[Valie Export](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valie-export/)

> [My interest in time emerged out of an engagement with the media that I was working with. Film and performance are temporal media. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valie-export/my-interest-in-time-emerged-out-of-an-engagement-with-the-media-that/)

[Valie Export](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valie-export/)

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