Artwork

TRAVESTIE

Artwork name: Travestie

a joint work by Revital Arbel and Friedemann Derschmidt

Collage of Photographs

The rôle travesti is the trouser role and in ballet, where the dominant language is French, opposite-sex roles are danced en travesti or en travestie. The word means “disguised” in French. Depending on sources, the term may be given as travesty, travesti, or en travesti.

This work consists of several photo snippets. Firstly, there is a series of photos of Revital Arbel’s eldest son, who is dressed as a nurse in a Purim costume. The other photos show Friedemann Derschmidt’s grandmother’s brother-in-law in two very different situations. One as a so-called Flintenweib – a military ruse in which Wehrmacht soldiers disguised themselves as Russian peasant women in order to be able to get closer to the enemy, and in the other pictures you can see the same man dressed as a woman in a classic play. These pictures come from a US prisoner of war camp in Colorado / USA.

TRAVESTIE
foto: Alex Kolomoisky

As a surgeon, Revital Arbel specializes in fusing, repairing and healing human ruptures. As an artist she has chosen to continue using needle and thread to generate intervention and repair.

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