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Dorothy Draper Interiors, 1943
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Divola, John:
Zuma series, 2007
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Dielman, Jeanne:
In Chantal Akerman’s movie Jeanne
Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080
Bruxelles, the Domestic alienation
is embodied by the character of
Jeanne Dielman. To prepare, to eat
dishes become a habit, a mechanical, a routine. Like her other activities, Jeanne’s prostitution is part of
the routine she performs every day
by rote and is uneventful. But on the
second day, Jeanne’s routine begins
to unravel subtly, as she drops a
newly washed spoon and overcooks
the potatoes that she’s preparing for
dinner. These alterations to Jeanne’s
existence prepare for the climax on
the third day, when she unexpectedly has an orgasm with the day’s
client, after which she stabs him
fatally with a pair of scissors. Where
Akerman in the deadly harmony of
everyday life is broken by an outside
agency, Matha Rosler is Semiotics
of the kitchen plays an endogenous
dynamic and embodies itself imbalance.
Dielman, Jeanne