puberty

2000
video projection
projection size 200 x 150cm
5 Mins 29 Secs

A young girl sits naked on the edge of a bed. Her hair covers her face and she wears headphones. All we hear is the dim sound of drum ‘n’ bass music (2000), just the treble, as if emitted from the headphones. Her pose and shadow on the wall behind lend reference to Munch’s puberty (1894) – a study of a naked adolescent girl. Unlike her counterpart in the painting, the girl in the video displays an easy confidence in her nakedness. As if oblivious to her viewers, she drums her fingers to the music and moves her head with the rhythm. The length of the film(5’ 29”) is the length of the drum ‘n’ bass track. puberty is projected on a wall inside a room-sized box.