Pavel Sterec - Self-portrait with Sigmund Freud

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Pavel Sterec

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: film/videoart

DATES

Date of creation: 2010

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:00:08
Sound: Silent

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Compilation containing the work: B-movie, 2011.
Attachment included with work’s publication: booklet CZ/EN

NOTES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Notes: Included in the compilation B-movie (edited by T. Nekvindová, S. Sobotovičová) - videoart on porno, horror, violence, bizarreness, warped sentiment, published in 2011 by the Research Centre of Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (VVP AVU) in cooperation with Divus.

Archived separately as .avi format.

Adopted text on the work: The artist presents the photographs as a short video, as in the case of the Flaming Perfume 2 (Hořící parfém 2) work from the same year. The naked artist stands in the middle of nature and carries on his shoulder a life-size figure of Sigmund Freud that he borrowed from the museum in Freud's native town of Příbor. The psyche and sexuality of the Central European is here literally "burdened" by the personality and thoughts of the famous Viennese psychiatrist. Various types of burdens cross here, as with the possibilities of their interpretation. But at the same time, the burden is just a ridiculous wax figure and thus the depleted symbol of the influential doctor acquires a light, and even anecdotal tone.
Source of text: Edice VIDA 2, VVP AVU, 2011
Author of text: Terezie Nekvindová, Sláva Sobotovičová
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INFORMATION IN PARTNER DATABASES

Artlist #1: Record at Artlist