Lynda BENGLIS
Now
(1973)

Medium
colour video, sound

Measurements
12 min 30 sec

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1975

Gallery location
Not on display

About this work

Lynda Benglis has explored the organic and erotic potential of sculptural forms since the late 1960s, but there was a period in the 1970s when she worked extensively with a new medium at the time: video. Benglis’s video works from this era address female sexuality and gender politics. In Now, the artist’s first colourvideo work, Benglis explored the limits of the medium, adjusting the colours, exploiting their saturation and making them ‘unreal’, skewering the notion that video is a direct and impartial medium.

Artwork Details

Accession Number
EA13-1975

Department
Contemporary Art

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Now
(1973)