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maria paschalidou 10.02-4.03.09 | narratives on a gyn exam table - cheapart

installation
A video installation by Maria Paschalidou based on short staged performances of twenty-one people who were invited to narrate a personal story whilst sitting on a gynaecological exam table.
The idea for the video was inspired by an early 20th-century gynaecological exam table, which the artist bought at a private auction in Chicago in 2004.
Narratives On A Gyn Exam Table is a video installation using the device of shared personal stories to engage questions of intimacy and control. In the installation, the medical table becomes an intimate prop for staging acts of narrating. Its solidity is interrupted by the fluidity of the participants' experiences, storytelling and acts of mimesis.
The installation consists of three videos (“The Stories”, “Human Traffic”, and “The Table”) and three wooden constructions, simulations of the original medical table. Audiences are encouraged to lie on these sculptures and watch the video with the twenty-one stories. The recordings of the stories for the installation began in Chicago in 2005 and were completed in Athens in 2008. . The exhibition catalogue will be published by Ekkremes Editions.