Larissa/Hd video/3min/2006

Larissa 
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Larissa is a portrait of an exotic dancer.
In the video she describes her work in her own words as we watch her go through her dance routine in a domestic environment.
In her job, she sells a fantasy of intimacy. I intended to subvert this intimacy by filming Larissa in a real intimate environment, her home, dressed in her everyday clothes.
This work was informed by a reading of an essay called “Striptease” by Roland Barthes, where he writes about how the striptease industry is based on contradiction.
He describes dancers as “taking refuge in the sureness of their technique; their science clothes them like a garment”.