Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest

The most comprehensive monograph to date on Pipilotti Rist, this book surveys the work of a pioneer of experimental video art celebrated for installations that bridge fine art and popular culture, the natural world and the technological sublime.

Through vivid color, audaciously sensuous imagery, and playful sexuality, Rist's work, ranging from single-channel videos to multilayered environments, is presented here in a hyperfeminine aesthetic interlaced with deeper themes of pain, innocence, and transformation. The 208-page hardcover volume was published by Phaidon in association with the New Museum, New York, to accompany Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest, Rist's largest survey exhibition in the United States, and is edited by curators Massimiliano Gioni and Margot Norton.

Rist has worked since the late 1980s to expand video art beyond the single screen, submerging viewers in projected color, sound, and architecture. Pixel Forest, the installation that gives this book its title, hung thousands of illuminated silicone tubes through a gallery as a physical counterpart to her moving-image work, and the monograph traces that trajectory from her early single-channel videos through the room-scale environments for which she is best known.