Shot in China, more precisely along the miles upon miles of shops selling mostly Christmas ornaments and plastic toys in the market of the city Yiwu, Rottenberg’s work comprises an environment where the viewer is simultaneously placed before and inside a peculiar, psychedelic setting of colorful explosion and synthetic bliss. In this tide of perpetual festivity, which rivals the bizarre dystopias of science fiction, working people appear apathetic, trapped in a contemporary myth with no characters or plot, attuned to the screens of computer terminals or mobile phones, engrossed in some other, dematerialized reality and its continual promise.
Excerpt from the text by Nadja Argyropoulou, March 2017
Mika Rottenberg was born in 1976 in Buenos Aires, grew up in Israel and now lives and works in upstate New York. She received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2000 and an MFA from Columbia University in New York in 2004. Working in video, installation, and sculpture, Rottenberg is interested in making reality blend with her personal fiction; she features women with unconventional bodies in performances about labor, production, and the psychological implications of physical existence.
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