In Glauben Sie nicht dass ich eine Amazone bin Dont you believe that I am an Amazon Ulrike Rosenbach evokes the history of female representation since ancient Greece A closedcircuitvideo projects the face of the artist and a cutout reproduction of Stefan Lochners Madonna of the Rose Bower 1448 onto one another The videoportrait of the 33yearold artist practicing archery animates the icon of the holy virgin Rosenbach shoots fifteen arrows into the face of the Madonna and simultaneously into herself Representing the allegorical roles of women as mothers housewives prostitutes saints virgins or Amazons the Madonna also evokes the myth of the Greek goddess Artemis
