Pipilotti Rist

I found the reading about Pipilotti's artwork to be incredibly interesting. The idea of romantic, ideal, beautiful, passionate, and perfect sexuality and the resulting connection with a fictional lover as the driving force in ones life and yet at the same time the cause of so much grief, doubt, and disappointment, is powerful. While reading the article I could not help but think that the times in which "reality" comes into her fantasy videos sounds as if it is, in a sense, the most passionate and moving parts of the videos. Though I understand that her art is meant to show this beautiful fantasy and the resulting inferior reality, I think that the raw, disappointing, sad reality has the potential to show more beauty than some of the fantasy moments. Though the fantasy is meant to be an ideal reality it never can truly be because though it sounds perfect, life is never that perfect and in a way the imperfection of reality holds a stunning beauty of its own. The obvious sensuality of Pipilotti's artwork does not sound as though it detracts from the depth of emotion and complex layers of meaning that this artwork is really all about.