ThirdSpace is excited to offer a single screening of New York - based artist, Marianna Rothen's 'Like a Dream'

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December 1st, 15:00. Barengasse 16, 8001 Zurich

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https://vimeo.com/951292666

 

Like a Dream – by Marianna Rothen 74 minutes, 2024 An experimental and parodic film

 

Like a Dream retraces Marianna Rothen's 17-year career in modeling. After becoming a photographer/ filmmaker, she spent three years making this autobiographical behind-the-scenes feature film. The film tells the humorous story of a teenager who left home in the late 1990s to become an international model. Through bizarre, caricatured stagings, Rothen embodies the figure of the "Young Girl". Her character, confronted by an environment obsessed with perfection, faces abuse of power and depression. Creating a mise en abyme, the Canadian artist moves among a multitude of plastic mannequins. She animates them like puppets in scenes evoking this dream life. Demystifying the glamour of catwalks and glossy magazine pages, Like a Dream functions as an intimate diary and authentic testimony to an experience lived between dream and reality. Marianna Rothen, b. 1982 is a Canadian artist living in New York. She uses her photographs, films and installations to explore and deconstruct conventional conceptions of female beauty and gender politics. Screenings and solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York, Polka Galerie in Paris, Biennale Images Vevey, Galerie Stephan Witschi in Zurich, The Little Black Gallery, London, Ingrid Deuss gallery in Antwerp and Kaune Contemporary in Cologne. Her work has been the subject of four monographs; Snow and Rose & other tales, Shadows in Paradise, Mail Order and Making It Real all published by b.frank books. Rothen's films include Like a Dream (2024), Mail Order (2019), The Woman with a Crown (2014) and Desert of June (2014).