Janaina tschape biography of rory

In her staged videos and photographs, she and her friends adorn themselves with balloons and inflated condoms, transforming into hybrid creatures with blob-like appendages, often set against watery landscapes.

The production still from Tschäpe’s video Lacrimacorpus unfolds within a man-made interior, evoking both history and myth.

Janaina tschape biography of rory

The setting, the castle of Ettersburg near Weimar, drew the artist for its dual historical significance: as a summer residence of Goethe, who composed poems on its grounds, and as a building overlooking the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald.

In the video, a female figure, dressed in a costume from Goethe’s era, dances in an empty hall until collapsing to the floor. Her spinning motion, combined with the room’s framing, the mechanical winding sound at the video’s start, and the chiming music, evoke a child’s music box.

This playful allusion, paired with the setting’s pristine elegance, contrasts sharply with the site’s tragic history.

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