Pierre I

"In Rists hands, the television set becomes a crystal ball in whose facts untold things and ideas are refracted and projected. Her virtuosic disruption and distortion of the electronic image area grasp of the very moments in which the medium unfolds its greatest potential. The most beautiful sequences in her film clips are those in which the camera loses control so that her shots burst like iridescent soap bubbles into the finest mist, or when fields of colour, streams of magma seem to flow directly under the physical surface of the screen, until, finally, representation and the mode of representation that is, abstract and figurative subject matter form arabesques."
P. Ursprung, "Pipilotti Rist's Flying Room," in Parkett, No. 48, 1996, p. 98.