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Einkreisung
VALIE EXPORT Austrian
Not on view
In her series entitled Body Configurations, the artist had herself or female colleagues photographed in local streets, stairwells, and alleyways, contorting their bodies to mimic the harsh geometries of the city. Influenced not only by the Actionists but also by the human sculpture of Robert Morris, Export complicates the coolly inhuman systems of Minimalism by reintroducing the human body into abstraction. It is an intimate yet public gesture that effortlessly transmutes the personal into the political.
