No Beach Just Sand

The graphic "mask" overlaying the scenario is reminiscent of a computer game. It is black and initially abstracts what is happening underneath it. Only very gradually is the viewer able to see through a slit as it moves over the image and a bright spot offering a glimpse of three performers. Their appearance is impressive: They are wearing black, full-face helmets while their bodies closely modelled with tightly wound black tape reveal their "nakedness".

Sabine Marte has repeatedly pushed to dismantle the traditional aestheticizing of the female body along such lines. However, here this is not the thematic focus of...