In 2001, following the publication of Frank’s pornographic novel, Sweet Sweat (Babel, Tel Aviv), accompanied by the artist’s biography and a scholarly essay about her by Rosen, a chapter in the television series Intimate Report was dedicated to Rosen. The (alleged) translator of the novel from French, Joanna Führer-Hasfari, agreed to be interviewed for that program, but stopped the conversation fifteen minutes after it started because she rejected Rosen’s attitude to Frank. Excerpts from that interview were interspersed in the program as transition interludes, despite Führer-Hasfari’s objection. Upon the scholar’s death, the interview was re-edited and it is presented in full as part of the current piece.

In the video Two Women and a Man, Rosen intertwines biography and autobiography: the invented figures of Frank and Führer-Hasfari are played by the artist and his wife. As in his paintings, in this video too, Rosen continues to develop his paradoxical project. When he paints a self-portrait, Rosen does not necessarily depict himself. The film is, at once, a total fabrication and a faithful testimony; while faking the existence of one figure, it documents the presence of another.

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