Ecology of Fear 2” “ The Modernist Iconoclast “ 2013. Video 1m:35s. 

The image, which has been reframed, belongs to King Vidor’s film “The Fountainhead”, based in the homonymous novel by Ayn Rand. Its main character, an architect, is based on Frank Lloyd Wright. The image shown in the video, depicts a woman, dressed in a perfectly pleated gown, throwing away a statue. The violent gesture of breaking a statue brings to mind a religious, zealot action, and re-calls the title of the video.The architecturally pleated gown, that makes the woman’s body over sexualized, is also a clear reference to Modernism.

© Almudena Crespo