Liina Siib
Tilda Thumb II
| Artist: | Liina Siib (1963 - ) |
| Title: | Tilda Thumb II |
| Date: | 2001 |
| Technique: Material: |
photomontage, inkjet print paper mounted on kapa plate |
| Height (cm): | 105.0 |
| Width (cm): | 68.0 |
| Description: | The fictitious movie posters by Liina Siib are based on photographs taken in different parts of the world and supplemented by attributes designed according to all the rules of the motion picture industry, from the film title to the name of the production company. Only on more careful inspection of the posters, that at first sight seem very real, we notice disturbing elements where the artist has taken a step too far for us not to suspect fraud. Unlike in conventional media practice where one attempts to show an illusion as ‘realistically' as possible, these pictures that in fact are not staged are here presented as such. In a similar way that we could all take a photograph from our own album and become stars, cover girls and heroes and enter this desirable world that does not exist. The fact that most of the pictures show women (a subject used to attract the audience, a target group for the film industry and also the author's personal object of interest) and that the ‘directors' and ‘producers' are mostly men, invites us to look for feminist references. Nevertheless, Siib is not a feminist calling people to the barricades, but rather an ‘external observer', an on-looker without any sentiment in her eye.* The contact with the viewer is being achieved primarily through joy of recognition, identification, memory images and fantasy games that feed on stereotypes and subsist on idealisation.** Anu Allas * Heie Treier, Ihad ja kujutelmad. Liina Siibi plakatid fiktiivsetele filmidele. - Vikerkaar, 2002, 7, p. 60. ** Eha Komissarov, Liina Siib. Filmist välja tagauste kaudu. The booklet of Liina Siib's exhibition "Klips!" in Hansapank Gallery, 24.07.-24.08.2002. |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Contemporary Art Collection |
| Collection number: | FV 134 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 49606 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/427287 |
| File info: |
Source type: digital photography File type: TIF File size: 96.72MB Resolution: 4591*7362px @ 300dpi |
