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In slow motion, a carpet beater, similar to one you may remem-
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ber from your grandparents’ household, slaps a bare bottom.
But instead of leaving painful skin behind, the tool shatters
into a thousand pieces—luckily! For Angelina Seibert, the car-
pet beater with its curved and intertwined ornamentation
symbolises infinity: continuously, the beater tries to spank the
bottom. A gesture of chastisement—one was not obedient,
one was not virtuous enough… physical or corporal punish-
ments are means that are frowned upon today. Yet it is the
metaphor of a patriarchy that at times very persistently tries
to beat her, which the artist transfers into the works Green
and Blue and Carpet Beater, but certainly not without a wink.
