I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out wh…

- Valie Export

The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own ideas, and in this regard …

- Valie Export

My interest in time emerged out of an engagement with the media that I was working with. Film and performance are temporal media. They rely on time. …

- Valie Export

Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then there was media art, which m…

- Valie Export

Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the truth is that there is no s…

- Valie Export