• Photography
• Linen Canvas
• Image Size: 45x70 cm
• Total Size: 45x70 cm
• Date: 2021
• 20 units
• Ref.: F36218

Hermes’ Mistress 1994–2001
Exit Art, New York / Kunsthalle, Berlin / MOCA, Los Angeles / Bronx Museum, New York / Reina Sofia,Madrid / Frauenmuseum, Bonn/ IAS, London / Spiral Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo / Kampnagel, Hamburg / UNESCO, Paris / Fondapol Paris / Chienku University Taiwan
Performance installation (duration: 4766 words with 26202 letter beads in 7 years)

Hermes’ Mistress bridges technology and traditional handwork. In the middle of a huge, expansive red dress, I sat with my portable computer, embroidering a spiralling path of letter beads that detailed information collected from the Internet. In the beginning (1994) there was lots of space on my dress and the internet was rather limited, in the end (1999), towards the centre of my body the Internet was vast and the circles on my dress restricted. Information is valued differently depending on who is processing it.