RUTH ZIMMERMANN
BIO. Ruth Zimmermann, born in Budapest, now lives with her cats in her own cabinet of curiosities in Vienna. Her main focus is on video installation, object art and performance. Aesthetically, she draws inspiration from horror and the genre of exploitation. All of her work has an unmistakable style.
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Close to Home (2021)
FMV Video game
The work is based optically on the 90s and the then popular technology of FMV games or interactive video. The protagonist is played, who is trapped in her apartment and her everyday routine and isolates herself from the outside world. The aim is to motivate the protagonist to go out again, take part in public life and do things that she wishes for instead of being trapped forever in her own world and routine. Using the point-and-click game mechanics, you navigate through the apartment in search of objects,intended to remind the protagonist that there is still life outside of her own four walls.If this does not succeed, the protagonist mentally falls apart more and more and the apartment metaphorically with her.
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Images: © Ruth Zimmermann
WEATHER WITCH AND GODS (2019)
Video Installation
A work that started in the pandemic and is still continuing to help with self confidence, self awareness and body image. Selfies bedded in the for the artist soothing horror images.
A positive affirmation against a lifelong distorted body image. Embracing the own body and self in the visuals and aesthetic that is the most dearing the the artist
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Images: © Ruth Zimmermann
lf_Confidence (2021/22)
Selfies
Selfies made for self acceptance and for the own body image. Made when the pandemie started to work against the destroyed body and self images.