Alex Bag

Black lace top and pants prada

portrait by PATTERSON BECKWITH
interview by SHAMIM MOMIN 

 

In the mid-’90s ALEX BAG was a phenomenon. She appeared on the cover of magazines — Purple Prose and Artforum in the same month. She was the young, up-and-coming star of the new generation of video artists. People called her the Cindy Sherman of video for the way she played dress-up in her short, funny, and thought-provoking videos, acting out roles, throwing her ego and her voice in all different directions. She wasn’t just an artist playing games with images and mass media, she was a comedian and a social critic. Now, after several years of laying low, she’s back in the limelight. She’s interviewed here by the curator of her current exhibition at the Whitney Museum.

SHAMIM MOMIN — This isn’t the first time you’ve been featured in Purple,…