• Pipilotti Rist, Heroes of Birth, exhibition announcement card recto. Luhring Augustine, New York, 2010. Colour photograph: a woman in a white hospital gown lies reclined, head tilted back, dark hair spread behind her. Her bare, heavily pregnant abdomen is visible, with three red circular monitoring devices attached to the skin. Medical equipment including tubing and IV lines visible in the background. Clinical setting, warm analogue colour palette. Image from Pipilotti Rist video work.
  • Pipilotti Rist, Heroes of Birth, exhibition announcement card verso. Luhring Augustine, New York, 2010. Pale grey-blue card. 'Pipilotti Rist' in red serif type, 'Heroes Of Birth' in red italic serif type below. Exhibition dates: '11 Sept – 16 Oct 2010' in red. Footer in small red type: 'LUHRING AUGUSTINE 531 West 24 Street NY 10011 www.luhringaugustine.com'. Light surface marks and minor handling wear visible.
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Luhring Augustine

Pipilotti Rist — Heroes of Birth

Pipilotti Rist — Heroes of Birth

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Luhring Augustine, New York, 2010
Exhibition announcement card
22 × 18.5 cm
Medium-weight card, printed both sides
Colour image to recto; red letterpress-style typography to verso
Issued for Heroes of Birth, Luhring Augustine, Chelsea, New York, 11 September – 16 October 2010

Condition: Very good. Light surface marks, minor handling wear, faint corner/edge wear consistent with use and storage.

Published for Pipilotti Rist’s third solo exhibition at Luhring Augustine, Heroes of Birth presented new work including two video installations and a smaller video sculpture. The exhibition included Layers Mama Layers and continued Rist’s long investigation into the body, image, colour, sound, and immersive projection as a spatial experience rather than a fixed screen-based form.

Rist had been a central figure in experimental video and installation since the late 1980s, bringing together pop, feminism, bodily imagery, music, and dreamlike saturation. By 2010 her work had moved fully into large-scale environments: rooms as optical and psychological fields. The image on this card — a pregnant body in a clinical setting, marked by red monitoring devices — operates as announcement, threshold, and bodily signal. Birth appears less as subject than as system: medical, visual, intimate, public.

A retained gallery object from the circulation of a video exhibition. One side carries the image; the other fixes the administrative record: artist, title, dates, venue, address. The card reduces an immersive installation to a portable surface.

Shipping and handling included in the listed price. Ships flat with protective backing.

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