Eva Grubinger: Kiasma. (Reviews - Helsinki).(Brief Article)

Eva Grubinger's Operation R.O.S.A., 2001, is a kind of Gesamkunstwerk, orchestrating sound, sculpture, and the moving image to assay what might be called the new-economy consciousness. It features a several-meter-high video projection of a baby, as happy as in a diaper commercial and playing with a rattle comprised of emblematic objects in different colors.

On the floor is a sculptural version of the rattle, in a I:I ratio with the oversize screen version--a scale disjunction which makes the sculpture eerily calibrated for paranoid speculation about its symbols: a triangular Moebius ...

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