Now
(1973)
- Medium
- colour video, sound
- Measurements
- 12 min 30 sec
- Accession Number
- EA13-1975
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1975 - Gallery location
- NGV International
- About this work
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Lynda Benglis has explored the organic and erotic potential of sculptural forms since the late 1960s, but there was a period in the 1970s when she worked extensively with a new medium at the time: video. Benglis’s video works from this era address female sexuality and gender politics. In Now, the artist’s first colourvideo work, Benglis explored the limits of the medium, adjusting the colours, exploiting their saturation and making them ‘unreal’, skewering the notion that video is a direct and impartial medium.