Interpreting ageing body parts in her suggestion of a video contribution to the video installation initiated by Marcos Ortega, Alexandra Reill introduces realities of imperfection of the human body, not least of all drawing attention to age discrimination

alexandra reill
Exquisite Corpse. Contribution to a video sculpture
video loop, 2025
4k [4032 x 3024 px] | one loop duration: 00:01:48:10
production kanonmedia | vie / a 2025

Video artists are asked to contribute interpretations of body parts to the collaborative video sculpture Exquisite Corpse – short looping films up to three minutes long:

“The final installation [is] a fragmented, looping video sculpture using CRTs arranged to form an abstract composite body. ” It is “assembled from these unique parts, creating a fragmented, dreamlike experience that reflects the complexity, contradiction, and beauty of embodiment. The sculpture will consist of looped CCTVs, arranged in the shape of an abstract body. Whether abstract or narrative, poetic or grotesque, these works coalesce in a simultaneous video sculpture that invites viewers to explore the body as a collective myth.” (1)

(1) Marcos Ortega: OPEN CALL: Exquisite Corpse – A Video Sculpture, in: Experimental Cinema, https://expcinema.org/site/en/call/open-call-exquisite-corpse-video-sculpture, 04/08/2025, access: 09/08/2025. Text excerpts