One of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists considers the human condition - from a conspicuously female position.

FACT’s 2008 Human Futures: my world programme  features the UK debut of Pipilotti Rist's  work 'Gravity Be My Friend'. With a trademark sensual slickness, her work explores ideas of fearlessness, the body, nature and spirituality. Merging her own childhood diminutive name Lotti to that of her hero Pippi Longstocking, Elisabeth Charlotte Rist embraced the irreverence and exuberance of Astrid Lindgren’s fictional character as an alternative feminine model for her own artistic practice. No act of subversion is so strong that it disrupts the whole – and yet her work is as disturbing as it is playful.