[PLATZHALTERTEXT]Vervielfältigungen eines Werkes dieser Webseite für Text- und Data-Mining und damit insbesondere für das Training einer Künstlichen Intelligenz bleibt ausdrücklich vorbehalten (§ 42h Abs 6 UrhG).https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/133734/fullThe Double (The Scissors)2010460 × 200 × 200 cm, 400 kgAluminium casting, brushed102471This sculpture by the internationally renowned feminist artist VALIE EXPORT comprises two pairs of scissors interlocked to create a single figure. They can be seen in motion in what seems to have been a quickly scribbled sketch; on it, EXPORT has added the words “[They have] come together.” Thus, the tools have joined forces, appearing from now on as a pair. These scissor dancers, as EXPORT herself calls them, served as the visual motif of an advertising campaign for which the artist was commissioned in 2009 by Vienna’s Tanzquartier. The cut, the incision can also be found in EXPORT’s early videos and performances. There, cutting usually represents the way social conventions that are inscribed in the female body mutilate the soul. Hence the scissors can also be viewed as a reference to household tasks typically associated with women.Sculpture1059665719130Belvedere 21image/jpegIn CopyrightFoto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/133734/fullhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-19130/manifest