Feb
‘Laat je haar neer’ (Let Your Hair Down) by Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist, Laat je haar neer (Let Your Hair Down), permanent audio/video-installaton, photo: Ernst Moritz
From 4 July 2009
To coincide with the successful exhibition ‘Elixir: the video organism of Pipilotti Rist’, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and H+F Patronage have commissioned Pipilotti Rist to create a permanent installation for the museum. The video installation entitled ‘Laat je haar neer’, a play on words that means both ‘let your hair down’ and ‘lay her down’, is constructed in the stairwell in the public foyer.
Visitors climb into a rope net in which they lie back and watch Pipilotti Rist’s latest video above them. The ‘Laat je haar neer - initiation video’ is drifting between reason and dream, like the installation is floating between ground and sky. It is also possible to zap to other video art from Karin van Dam, John Bock, Yu-Chin Tseng, Joost Conijn and Fischli & Weiss, which is part of the museum collection.
H+F Patronage
The H+F Patronage (H+F Mecenaat), founded in 2005, is an exclusive partnership between Han Nefkens and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The goal of the H+F Patronage is to stimulate contemporary art and artists on an international level, and to introduce them to a new audience. Click here for further information.
Current selection of videos
Pipilotti Rist, I'm a victim of this song (hoofdstuk 2)
Effie Wu, Super Smile (artist' collection)
Vito Acconci, Blind-folded catching piece, 1970
Bruce Nauman, Dance or exercise on the perimeter of a square, 1968 and Gauze, 1969
Jeroen Eijsinga, De idioot, 1999
Public in the net of 'Let Your Hair Down', installation, 2009, photo: Kees Spruijt
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Production and construction 'Let Your Hair Down', 2009, photos: Ernst Moritz
