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Article: Reeling into the future.
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- C: International Contemporary Art
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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The image that appears on the cover of this issue is from a film sequence in Paulette Phillips's recent play (see, page 36). In the film a woman quite literally bashes her head against a brick wall. It is the contradictions that coexist in this film-frame that hook me as much as its individual elements: the dazed and confused look of its protagonist, her well-groomed appearance and bloody forehead, the fresh green of the shrubbery. The image's easter-egg colours lend an eerily cheerful note to its intimation of violence.
Many, seeing it during the course of production, have joked that my interest in the shot has a strong element of identification and I can't deny ...