"Still Life", a bowl of fruit decaying, is a film by Sam Taylor-Wood. The music "Preservation Divine" is by Keith Kenniff. The work can be seen in the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Nothing lasts forever, that's what its showing. The stillness of a furit will ever longingly decay if left untouched. The moving camara and the music represents the constant world moving on. Even uninterrupted it still dies.
I got to see it at the MFA Boston while I was a student at the school there. It was absolutely mesmerizing. If I remember it wasn’t in a gallery but an atrium instead. I just remember standing watching it agape as people filed around me.
This might be a modern vanitas masterpiece. The invisible spores of mold and fungus in the air, which are benign to the living, will eventually turn everything it touches into a toxic slurry using water as one of its main reagents.
does Sam Taylor-Woods know that you posted this? It looks like a video of the film? The original is much more vibrant and clear and framed differently.
and includes that all important plastic pen ... Loved it at the Venice Biennale, still loving it now and a whole generation of my students have now seen it and pondered it as part of their investigation into Vanitas.
@@alanahampton you you have any idea where i could watch the original video? I'm trying to include it in my school work and think that a higher quality one would definitely be better
Art is useless (if you think about it from a practical point of view, it isn't used like history archive nowadays because we have cameras) and very ironic and paradoxical. Cubism was invented, Surrealism, Impressionism... The only thing it is left are visual jokes/experiments. If you see Post-Modernism art from a practical point of view you are doing it wrong, mate.
Ignorance never looks good paraded as self-righteousness. Can I suggest you seek to understand rather than to judge and you may well find a whole world of wisdom expressed through Contemporary art.
@@berserker3414 is this a troll comment Art is the most important thing in life imo we would be nothing with out it being allowed to project our thoughts and emotions etc onto paper or whatever you decide aswell as benefiting mental health and self worth
there are people in other countries who are starving as well, stop forcing this narrative that Africa is just a 3rd world country that just lets it's citizens starve. That artist waisted less food then some large corporation like publix or walmart which you probably shop at. Have you even ever been to Africa?!
Nothing lasts forever, that's what its showing. The stillness of a furit will ever longingly decay if left untouched. The moving camara and the music represents the constant world moving on. Even uninterrupted it still dies.
The video completely cuts out the Bic roller pen. Which is there to symbolise that some things decay/die and others do not !
Agreed. Very annoying.
That was fantastic.
I remember seeing this at the Tate modern back when I was in school over 15 years ago. Incredible!
+Matthew Alger hey me too. But it wasn't really a centre piece when I went so I didn't pay it much attention.
I got to see it at the MFA Boston while I was a student at the school there. It was absolutely mesmerizing. If I remember it wasn’t in a gallery but an atrium instead. I just remember standing watching it agape as people filed around me.
This might be a modern vanitas masterpiece. The invisible spores of mold and fungus in the air, which are benign to the living, will eventually turn everything it touches into a toxic slurry using water as one of its main reagents.
Finally i found this artist
does Sam Taylor-Woods know that you posted this? It looks like a video of the film? The original is much more vibrant and clear and framed differently.
and includes that all important plastic pen ...
Loved it at the Venice Biennale, still loving it now and a whole generation of my students have now seen it and pondered it as part of their investigation into Vanitas.
@@alanahampton you you have any idea where i could watch the original video? I'm trying to include it in my school work and think that a higher quality one would definitely be better
Awesome.. I’m stunned❤️
Anyone else got this recomended by their art teachers for a homework ?
love this piece, saw sam talk at the BFI several years ago and she's inspired my work ever since
what is the artist pointing out?
That Death could make life, no matter how scary.
@@KlNGTED thank you.
That she’s an old hag dating a young buck
🥶🥶🥶🥶HELLO CLASS 🥶🥶🥶🥶
qui est ici parce que les liens de cned ne marchent jamais??
how do I get 3mins and 59sec of my life back?
I doubt you have much of a life considering who you're subscribed to, airhead.
Another short film by her
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The alive gallery's 🙂
pog
Woo So hot !
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Mdr
Eww 🤢
Remind me again, since when does decaying fruit that could be eaten by hungry people in Africa, considered art?
I honestly do not get it.
Art is useless (if you think about it from a practical point of view, it isn't used like history archive nowadays because we have cameras) and very ironic and paradoxical. Cubism was invented, Surrealism, Impressionism... The only thing it is left are visual jokes/experiments.
If you see Post-Modernism art from a practical point of view you are doing it wrong, mate.
Ignorance never looks good paraded as self-righteousness. Can I suggest you seek to understand rather than to judge and you may well find a whole world of wisdom expressed through Contemporary art.
@@berserker3414 is this a troll comment
Art is the most important thing in life imo we would be nothing with out it being allowed to project our thoughts and emotions etc onto paper or whatever you decide aswell as benefiting mental health and self worth
there are people in other countries who are starving as well, stop forcing this narrative that Africa is just a 3rd world country that just lets it's citizens starve. That artist waisted less food then some large corporation like publix or walmart which you probably shop at. Have you even ever been to Africa?!
:/