Elon Musk muss zum waxing - Valerie Tiefenbacher

Elon Musk muss zum waxing
Valerie Tiefenbacher
2016
 

“Elon Musk needs a wax” shows a depiction of the space capsule Dragon Space X, developed from engineering visionary Elon Musk, one of the most influential CEOs worldwide. Spaceships and space capsules are often not on peoples radar because of their technical complexity and wide remoteness. In contrast, using body hair, an intimate and life known material. The space capsule represents the celebrated heteronormative manliness which is closely associated with power and capitalism.
 
The smooth technic is faced with a societally perceived bodily-dirtiness.   The work throws a critical view towards a society specific attribution of certain properties: the rational, tidy, technical, and manly in contrast to the natural, bodily, dirty, feminine. The glorified vision of progress and conquest turns into something daily and bodily.
 
Even the most complex techniques are constructed by people with leg hair.
 
Valerie Tiefenbacher is a fine artist. She studied at the University of Fine Arts Vienna.
http://www.valerietiefenbacher.com/