Pipilotti Rist
Sugarplums (Independent cousin of The Blue Fairy in the Valley), 2014
Video installation for a bar by Pipilotti Rist
with 1 projection, 1 player, 1 bottle with sanded label projection surface
With thanks and credits to: Dave Lang, Antshi von Moos, Karin Seinsoth and Anna Helwing from Hauser & Wirth, Tamara Voser and Remo Weber.
As late night conversation slips and slides into incoherence, an apparition appears out of the mists of a bottle about to be drunk or perhaps already partially consumed. Like much of Pipilotti Rist’s work, Sugarplums plays with perceptions of appearance and scale in such a ways that even Lilliputian genies loom large in the imagination.
Promenade 35, Gstaad
Pipilotti Rist is a renowned Swiss artist who has pioneered the use of moving images in installation art.
Characterized by vibrant color, trance-like soundtracks, whimsy, and sensual appeal, Rist's art toes the line between fantasy and reality. She makes the commonplace seem unexpected and fascinating by taking familiar subjects, such as the body, and divorcing them from traditional representations.