Motion Study, after Leni Riefenstahl, 2018
digital print, marble, ython, steel pedestal, tape on glas
100 x 70, 170 x 70, 100 x 70
Motion Study, after Leni Riefenstahl (2018) examines how the Nazi regime appropriated classical Greek sculpture for propaganda purposes. Centered on Leni Riefenstahl's 1936 photo of Myron's Discus Thrower for Beauty of the Olympic Battle, the work explores the ideological instrumentalization of classical aesthetics