Issues with My Other Half

The unpleasant loss of controllability of the body is mixed in with the pleasurable and imaginative transformation of every- day objects and processes to make tan- gible the illusionary character of cinema and the persistence of vision. In ISSUES WITH MY OTHER HALF, deep-seated fears are visualized as surreal night- mares in 23 short scenes. Nothing works the way it should or even the way one wants it to – except for the cinematic animation.

How many ways can the human body be divided into two parts? Top and bottom, left and right, up and down… For every part of the body, artist Anna Vasof devises a surprising, witty gag of separation and reversal, executed with seamless digital effects. Then she extends the game to the body’s relationship with mobile phones, pandemic masks – anything with which we interact. As in all her work, Vasof makes the familiar deeply unfamiliar.

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