77 Frauen unserer Zeit- Book Launch & Video Screening

77 Frauen unserer Zeit- Book Launch & Video Screening

77 Frauen unserer Zeit | KV_RLP × Alexandra Hopf × DISTANZ Verlag

The starting point for the publication 77 Frauen unserer Zeit (77 Women of Our Time) is the historical book Unsere Zeit in 77 Frauenbildnissen (Our Time in 77 Portraits of Women) from 1930. Alexandra Hopf continues it's concept in 77 reverse glass paintings depicting role models from the second half of the twentieth century, which were exhibited in 2025 at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. The series asks which roles these women embodied, how they staged themselves, and who entered cultural memory or fell into oblivion. The book is published by Distanz Verlag and includes a foreword by Rebecca Wilton and an essay by Andreas Prinzing.

At the book launch, Alexandra Hopf’s new video work Spitting Image (2026, 4K, 5:20 min.) will premiere. Taking as its starting point the reverse-glass painting of punk icon Jordan Mooney (Pamela Rooke), featured in the exhibition, the work engages with a figure who understood herself as a total work of art. The painting depicts Mooney in half-profile, her mohawk and face adorned with abstract compositions, as a jet of liquid shoots from her mouth: a “spitting image”, a phrase whose original meaning refers to an exact likeness. The video reconstructs this moment in extreme slow motion, returning the preserved image to the flow of time.
 
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