Mika Rottenberg's video installations present us with perpetual production mechanisms that submit their operators to feed them constantly with their labor and bodies. These botanic machine-like constructions submit women to perform repetitive movements in order to keep them going. In Rottenberg's work, the female body is presented as a resource for the machine-it is sweat, hair, and nails that generate an economy. These tropical devices exploit more than simply women's labor, but also use of all that the body exfoliates, grows, and removes.
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