Smash
2014
Marilyn Minter
American, born 1948
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Inspired in part by Marilyn Minter’s collaborations with the fashion world, this video was commissioned for the Brooklyn Museum’s 2014–15 exhibition Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, and appeared in her 2016–17 retrospective Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, also at the Museum.
Rather than highlight the glitz and glamour of designer shoes, Minter’s video is more foreboding and empowering. The model’s feet are uncomfortably squeezed into the heels, and her movements are slippery on slick silver liquid, before she slowly and ominously destroys the glass pane separating the subject from the viewer.
Rather than highlight the glitz and glamour of designer shoes, Minter’s video is more foreboding and empowering. The model’s feet are uncomfortably squeezed into the heels, and her movements are slippery on slick silver liquid, before she slowly and ominously destroys the glass pane separating the subject from the viewer.
- Maker/Artist
- Minter, Marilyn
- Classification
- Media Art
- Formatted Medium
- HD digital video, color, sound, 7 minutes 55 seconds
- Departments
- Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
- Accession Number
- 2017.8
- Credit Line
- Gift of the artist and Salon 94, New York
- Exhibitions
- Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings
- Rights Statement
- © artist or artist's estate
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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