The artist follows instructions or scores and interprets them. This original approach using performances produces images that are surrealist and oftentimes absurd, but full of energy. They represent a liberation from the autobiographical concerns that have been a reoccurring theme for the artist during her career.

 

Brotherus once again highlights strategies from art history that ricochet in her work, making them imperative to our contemporary context. Their continuity questions the current role of the artist, and enables the viewers to reconsider the nature of art, history, repetition, documentation, authorship, and interpretation.