video still, 2019

Work co-produced by Les Moulins de Paillard

As a response to my time as artist in residency at Les Moulins de Paillard in France, a big monument/museum/old paper mill next to a castle where I could wander around alone, and in link to my research on movements connected to ideas of femininity, I created a 7 minute video work called ‘ffff’: a female figure, a female body, a female ghost... ffff as a sound could also refer to pfff, an expression of annoyance, but also as a sound of frivolity, of playfulness. The movements and ‘costume’ relate to ideas of femininity, from being a fashion model, a goddess, a girl dressing up, being sexy, to the everydayness of daily grind having to take care of the laundry or just to be annoyed by having to be feminine, not knowing exactly what it means. The feminine as a game, an asset, a burden.