Sky's Research on Pipilotti Rist and El Anatsui

Pipilotto Rist

Pipilotti Rist was born in 1962 in Grabs, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland. Her works generally treated issues related to 'gender', 'sexuality' and the 'human body'. She will indicates each people various experiences, happy, sad or angry. For instances:

An Eyeball Massage

The installation is about putting people inside a huge room, the tall walls are covered with projections of oversized images, videos and audios. People are needed to stay in the room and absorbs the atmosphere that alters when every projections changes. This creates a variety of experiences to the viewers. 

Diagraming how each environment can effectively alters people's feelings and actions. As in the picture, all three scenarios are different, with different people's actions and experiences.

Pour Your Body Out

This installation takes place at Museum of Modern Art, using all 7354 cubic meters of atrium. Similar to some of her projects, the projection videos are taken from ant eye view, giving a sense of 'enlarging' to the surroundings for the people inside the area. Meanwhile, the audiences will automatically imagined that their body had been compressed into a tiny size while they are staying in the installation.

El Anatsui

El Anatsui was born in 1944, is a Ghanian sculptor, mostly active in Nigeria. He, as a sculptor, uses a recycle-like materials to create his art work. The medias used are mostly woods, water bottles, metal cans, clays, aluminum. All of his works are produced in an amazingly enormous size, here are one of the bests:

Gravity and Grace

The work is created using aluminum plates and liquor bottles which are joined, attached by copper wires. The works is about transformation, as El Anatsui said it himself, since the sculpture can be changed differently due to the distance of the viewers. Moreover, by the huge size of his work, it can also described as a large metal curtains.