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Aida Ruilova - Goner

I felt this video has similarities that I am trying to show in the artwork for assignment two. The invisible binaries and culture that create us, we contribute to all these things and we seem to want these binaries in a way. This video of a women, looks as if shes waiting in a nice room for a lover with her heart shaped bed is soon turned into a victim where the perpetrator is invisible.I felt like this related to the binary question because we feel the binaries all around us and if we don’t fall into one or the other it can be painful and we get treated differently, a hostile environment waits for us. When I saw this I also thought of something Roland Barthes writes about when he talks about culture touching us deeply and is created through both consumers and creators. He explains these moments of realisation as violent they “prick me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me).”