Lilith

Steina in collaboration with Doris Cross. In Lilith – a name that evokes biblical and mystical references – Steina alters and manipulates the face of a woman (painter Doris Cross] so that it is submerged within a natural and technological landscape. Employing the imaging techniques of focal plane shift (altering the depth of field) and frame ‘grabbing’ (a succession of frozen images), she creates a constantly shifting visual field in which an image appears to exist in a constant flux of temporal and spatial planes. The woman’s electronically distorted speech adds a further haunting dimension to this almost sculptural fusion of human figure and landscape.’ – Marita Sturken