Gina Pane
 “Discours mou et mat” 1975 DVD B&W, sound 22:33 Courtesy Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/TBA, Amsterdam, NL Discours mou et mat, 1975 Pane ends the performance by lying down beside the naked female figure, the mother. Restful violin music surrounds them, she looks upwards through binoculars. The camera does not play an active role in this work, but only serves to register Pane's actions. The performance is attended by an audience, which now and then is briefly filmed by the camera. Biography and Statement: Le language du corps est un fait sociologique car l'homme isolé est inconceivable toutes ses manifestations sont propres à la vie sociale et sont l'objet de la sociologie (Body language is a sociological fact because the isolated human being is inconceivable all man's manifestations are inherently linked with social life and are the subject of sociology) freely translated from a statement by Gina Pane. "Our entire culture is based on the representation of the body. Performance does not so much annul painting as help out the birth of a new painting based on different explanations and functions of the body in art". Gina Pane uses her body as the carrier of her work, as a canvas on which you can paint, and which you (sometimes) cut into. Gender and identity are central concepts in her work. The artist makes use of risk, uncertainty, physical pain, and even the possibility of dying, as means to investigate these concepts. She gives shape to these themes in rituals, in which she uses elements such as blood, fire and milk. (Frankrijk, 1939 - 1990)
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