Dough (16+)
USA, 2006, colour, 6 min.
Director: Mika Rottenberg
Director: Mika Rottenberg
Dough depicts a team of women pulling a rope of dough through a series of claustrophobic factory compartments. At the center of the Rube Goldberg–like system, an obese woman kneads and directs the dough. When a bouquet of flowers is placed before her, a chain reaction is set off: the flowers produce allergic tears, which fall to the floor and generate steam, which in turn causes the dough to rise before it is finally packaged. Equating industrial and bodily processes, the journey of the fleshy dough alludes to digestion, excretion, and birth.
Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, Inc., New York
Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, Inc., New York
Russian premier
Mika Rottenberg
Mika Rottenberg
was born in Buenos Aires in 1976, and holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Columbia University. She lives and works in New York City. Between 2004 – 2009, she has had solo exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens; Le Case d'Arte, Milan; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery; Maison Rouge in Paris (2009); and the KW Institute of Contemporary Art. Her work is currently on view at the Guggenheim Bilbao.
USA, 2006, colour, 6 min.
Director: Mika Rottenberg
Director: Mika Rottenberg
Dough depicts a team of women pulling a rope of dough through a series of claustrophobic factory compartments. At the center of the Rube Goldberg–like system, an obese woman kneads and directs the dough. When a bouquet of flowers is placed before her, a chain reaction is set off: the flowers produce allergic tears, which fall to the floor and generate steam, which in turn causes the dough to rise before it is finally packaged. Equating industrial and bodily processes, the journey of the fleshy dough alludes to digestion, excretion, and birth.
Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, Inc., New York
Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, Inc., New York
Russian premier