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SEX DEATH NIVEA
by Marlene Haring, 2004

Wood, screws, trestles, tarpaulin, Nivea cream on windows

Installation made for the exhibition 'I am not a feminist. I am normal.' at the Austrian Cultural Forum, London, put together by Marlene Haring and Anthony Auerbach as part of a season of exhibitions, events and films on the occasion of VALIE EXPORT’s retrospective exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London, 2004.

‘The view one might have got out of the window of the gallery onto the street is blocked by the installation Sex Death Nivea by Haring. The installation consists of two trestles with a table top at the height of the windowsill. On this there is a framework covered with a white tarpaulin. The light-fl ooded shop window-like space behind it can be seen neither from the inside because of the white material covering the view, nor from the street, as the window was covered with a thick layer of Nivea cream. The installation refers, in part, to the body, its constructedness and perishability, for with the passing of time, the thick, opaque layer of Nivea decays and permits an uneven view of the interior.’ (excerpt from Who wants to be a feminist? by Rosa Reitsamer, Art in Sight, London, no. 26, January 2005

 I am not a feminist. I am normal.