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The first video shows the complicated process of the artist getting dressed in a kimono by her Japanese friends. The second video is sampled from an instruction video that her friends normally watch before helping each other getting dressed in the kimono, originally recorded from Japanese TV. The work can be seen as dealing with the notion of an authentic femininity and ethnicity.
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Born in 1972 in Visby, Sweden. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Åsa Elzén has studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, BA 1996, and at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm, MA 2002. She has been an artist-in-residence at Changdong Art Studios, Seoul, Jerusalem Center for Visual Arts, Jerusalem, IASPIS, Stockholm and Sanskriti Kendra, New Dehli, among others. She works with video, sculpture, photography and installation and has shown work at Exit Art, New York, Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, ak28, Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Rooseum, Malmö, and Gwangju Biennale 2004.
She is interested in subjects such as feminism, globalism, tourism, notions of beauty and love.