Pipilotti Rist

New York City, September 20, 2006 Artist Pipilotti Rist has accepted the commission to create the visual identity for The Armory Show 2007, The International Fair of New Art. Rist is the sixth artist to define the image of the fair, which has become the world's preeminent showcase for new art by living artists. For the ninth edition of The Armory Show, which will be held February 23-26, 2007 in New York City, images from Rist's audio video installations will dominate the visual materials.

In an email exchange about the commission Ms. Rist wrote:
I see the Armory Show Commission (rather) as a carte blanche Fluxus piece; people can cut the pages out and hang them on the wall if they want. The video still series for the Armory Show catalogue are still photographs from the audio video installation "Homo Sapiens Sapiens" that was shown as the Swiss contribution to the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 in the San Stae Church in Venice, Italy. The figures move in an imaginary paradise beyond thoughts of guilt and seduction. The pictures are from the Garden of Eden before the fall of man (a strange expression in English!). I wonder where we would be without the deep impression of the Christian/Jewish/Muslim culture. To explore this, I try to make hypothetical pictures that are as free as possible, open up the horizon and expand the radius of movement.