“Mexican Standoff” by Lauren Brincat
Title:
- Mexican Standoff
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Medium:
- Documentation of an action, Two-channel digital video, 16:9, colour, sound; sculpture
Duration:
- 8:20
Size:
- 160 x 90 x 90 cm
Artist Statement:
Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts 2013.
Lauren Brincat’s video work Mexican Standoff shows a performance she undertook in Mexico City. Here a group of female horse riders, including the artist herself, standoff with a statue of a heroic man on horseback at the Museo Nacional de Arte. The work forms a response to the lack of statues of heroic women on horseback compared to the many, many public statues of men portrayed in a heroic manner. [source: Kathleen Linn, https://www.artshub.com.au]
Sound: Bree van Reyk
Cinematographer: Rafael Ortega
Special Thank you: Aline Hernandez & Nayeli Garcia
