2004
video, 1’ 50’’
1 – 15 September 2016
www.proyectoamil.org
Since the beginning of her artistic practice, Elena Tejada-Herrera has sought to conceive an alternative model for the circulation and dissemination of her work, based on guerrilla interventions in the urban and virtual public space. In the context of the exhibition Videos From This Woman: Performance Documentation 1997-2010, the artist occupies the Proyecto AMIL website with DOMESTIC CRIMES, a video produced in Virginia (USA) in 2004.
Who killed the beautiful maid? Was it the kitchen or the house? Was she killed by domestic labor?… Was her death the job of a serial killer? Or perhaps it was an “hysterical” suicide?
DOMESTIC CRIMES forms part of a larger series that articulates a critique to the image of women in American media and the burden of everyday domestic life through black humour. In parallel, the video quotes and ironizes the representation of the female body in art history.
The work can be viewed exclusively at proyectoamil.org until the 15th of September.
