Veronika Hösch reflects on the fiction of romance on screen. In her video work Vérorose, she satirises the illusion of love that is shown to us in film and television. In the trailer for a fictional telenovela, the protagonist, Vérorose (Hösch’s alter ego), mimes stereotypical female poses that are considered seductive in TV series, such as eye pokes or slowly smoking a cigarette. The soundtrack “I am never tired of falling in love” indicates that Vérorose will fall in love again and again, just as the protagonists in film and television do time and again. When one object of desire is no longer available or desirable, the next one appears. Female characters on screen are almost never portrayed without a man for whom it is apparently worth performing femininity.

Text by the collective Kaeshmaesh