Colored Sculpture close-up - "Manic Love" by Jordon Wolfson - Fondation Luma - Arles

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  • Опубліковано 31 жов 2016
  • I saw a few videos of it on the internet - but none really captured his face like this. Presented at Fondation Luma's Parc des Ateliers in 2016. What would Percy Sledge think? We can hope he would laugh.

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  • @chewingonurguitarstrings6964
    @chewingonurguitarstrings6964 2 роки тому +1353

    I just saw a video of when he was newer, brighter colors, his eyes look so calm yet so angry, over time he gets beat up by being dragged and dropped, if I’m right that’s a candy add in his eyes, what the child sees on tv, hoping for a happier experience, yet not being able to escape

    • @ilroseli6669
      @ilroseli6669 2 роки тому +9

      IKR I JUST SAW THAT TOO LIKE the. Hold in the background who knows how old she is now

    • @Itz_yuriilol11
      @Itz_yuriilol11 Рік тому +6

      What is the vid? That he/she was much met brighter and new?

    • @fabqatar3853
      @fabqatar3853 Рік тому +5

      I saw Betty boop-

    • @melinaangelgallegos8290
      @melinaangelgallegos8290 Рік тому +3

      1:19-2:03 can u say me what he says?

    • @bryleec2w
      @bryleec2w Рік тому +1

      KARKAT

  • @ceilingfan6969
    @ceilingfan6969 Рік тому +204

    The way the chains sound adds so much to this piece of art. It reminds me of a roller coaster that you regret getting on, where there's no way you can stop it and you just have to accept it.

  • @invaderzimismyfav
    @invaderzimismyfav 4 роки тому +625

    I can't stop thinking about this piece. I saw it two years ago and it's been on my mind ever since. But when people ask me about my favorite piece of art i always have to preface this by explaining "yes i know it's creepy but it's so goooooood"

  • @breonafarcas4953
    @breonafarcas4953 3 роки тому +881

    As an artist myself, I can feel the grueling sensation of being dragged around. Resting, now awakened, now dragged, tortured, putting a show on for all to see. It really got me when he fell on his head after 'When a man loves a woman' cued in the background. Great piece, I can appreciate it from miles away.

    • @daynawithawhy
      @daynawithawhy 2 роки тому +34

      This piece is about child abuse, not the grueling torture of being an artist

    • @elyssapadilla1311
      @elyssapadilla1311 2 роки тому +52

      @@daynawithawhy art doesn’t have just one story

    • @ResearchForMyself
      @ResearchForMyself 2 роки тому +6

      Lol you can make anything up about a piece of art

    • @daynawithawhy
      @daynawithawhy 2 роки тому +21

      @@elyssapadilla1311 No, it doesn't have just one story. Art is about interpretation, of course it is, but when the artist conveys and explains his inspiration, his motivation and the messages that he wanted to express and have the viewers take away, I listen

    • @daynawithawhy
      @daynawithawhy 2 роки тому

      @@ResearchForMyself what do you take from this piece?

  • @bandaid3467
    @bandaid3467 2 роки тому +390

    The meaning of the art piece is to lock the doll up and drag it around, throwing it, tossing it making it chip its paint because he is being worn down.
    all he wants to do is rest but he cant, he is going insane as this goes on.
    its about abuse and how it wears down the child, causing it to in the end break down and possibly, die in some cases. -✨

    • @420hmm
      @420hmm 2 роки тому +2

      Well said

    • @melinaangelgallegos8290
      @melinaangelgallegos8290 Рік тому +3

      What he says in the minute 1:20 to the 2:00?

    • @LurkingUser
      @LurkingUser Рік тому

      @@melinaangelgallegos8290 I don’t know if I heard all of them correctly
      “2 to kill you
      3 to hold you
      4 to bleed or leave you (?)
      5 to touch you
      6 to move you
      7 to ice you
      8 to put my teeth in you
      9 to put my hand on you
      10 to hand inside your hair (?)
      11 your leg over my shoulder (?)
      12 your mouth full of coffee
      12 I knew you
      13 I killed you
      14 you’re blind
      15 you’re spoiled
      16 to lift you
      17 to show you
      18 to weigh you”

  • @suefee8642
    @suefee8642 2 роки тому +181

    The eyes at the beginning are looking with so much pain...fascinating and cruel at the same time

    • @ena9871
      @ena9871 Рік тому +7

      The fact it’s closing it’s eyes and gritting it’s teeth to prepare for the pain it’ll experience hurts too.

  • @AoiUsagiOtoko
    @AoiUsagiOtoko 3 роки тому +480

    this gives me chills. so much meaning portrayed in such a relatively simple way. i just can't get over it, the raw emotion this evokes

    • @bobzmuda9603
      @bobzmuda9603 2 роки тому +14

      People always say things like this, but conveniently leave out what that meaning is.
      It's ok. We're sure you got it and it's so profound, you just couldn't bring yourself to mention what it means. That would be crude and baseless, beneath your understanding of the wordless appreciation of art.

    • @amogusamogos
      @amogusamogos Рік тому +22

      @@bobzmuda9603 because many have a different interpretation? you are gatekeeping art that you didn't make.

    • @ena9871
      @ena9871 Рік тому +2

      @@bobzmuda9603 you don’t need to be a poet to appreciate art. Even a “wow nice design” is good enough.

    • @anonymous_wednesday
      @anonymous_wednesday Рік тому +2

      @@bobzmuda9603 you dont need a meaning in order to be a human being with emotions
      sorry your programmer forgot your empathy chip ig

    • @tyleriguana
      @tyleriguana Рік тому

      The way the comment you have expressed was not necessary and was pretty rude and disrespectful in a toxic and aggressive tone. What did you mean by everything that you have stated?

  • @mekylovesbts7020
    @mekylovesbts7020 2 роки тому +152

    wow i saw another video of this piece where he was new and more recent, it’s so crazy how rusty, frustrated, and older he looks now omg, such an interesting art piece

  • @avagates1626
    @avagates1626 2 роки тому +110

    I see this as what abuse can do to a child, it makes them hate the world, they cant see the good in people, they spiral, they are angry at the people that just sit and watch as the light is being drained out of them, the colors of life are slowly lost, they are filled with hate, they are stuck and want away, everyone has a perfect image of them and constantly complains that they are not that way. It almost seems like a kid who has constantly been told why they are useless and they constantly repeat it to themselves bcuz they have slowly started to think its true.
    Its not creepy, its only scary to you bcuz its realistic

  • @Pinkroomservers
    @Pinkroomservers 4 роки тому +102

    Great work capturing the face!

  • @juliusheide3643
    @juliusheide3643 4 роки тому +150

    i think is him as a child, maybe divorced family, and hate them both, dang makes me remember childhood.

    • @kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631
      @kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 3 роки тому

      Toy story . Utter bore.
      Artist Statement overload

    • @worldwaide
      @worldwaide 2 роки тому

      The artist has expressed that this piece is not autobiographical

  • @edlyn4756
    @edlyn4756 2 роки тому +33

    Jesus Christ this scared me. The meaning behind it made me cry and made me want to go in my parents room again

  • @reKomaAgain
    @reKomaAgain 2 роки тому +57

    When they say the eyes are a window to the soul, they really thought about it

  • @gweenbawng
    @gweenbawng 3 роки тому +27

    i’ve been looking for this forever, it was so hard to find

  • @MrJpm1989
    @MrJpm1989 2 роки тому +46

    Kinda feels like my childhood with a stepfather and mother who died . These would be the harder years

  • @xoxo_boe4116
    @xoxo_boe4116 2 роки тому +76

    It’s so sad to know wut this whole piece is about 😔 as it literally explains everything makes me sadder

    • @user-666___
      @user-666___ 2 роки тому +13

      Excuse me, but could you please explain what this work of art is about?

    • @Sukfye
      @Sukfye 2 роки тому +13

      @@user-666___ I saw a comment where they said the artist of this piece said it was about child abuse but unsure.

    • @darielysoto2977
      @darielysoto2977 2 роки тому +3

      @@user-666___ honestly all of Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s pieces are up for everyone’s own interpretation. But most people see it as the using or abuse of a child.

    • @edeninreallife
      @edeninreallife 2 роки тому +18

      @@darielysoto2977 this is by jordan wolfson, not those two btw 👀

    • @darielysoto2977
      @darielysoto2977 2 роки тому +2

      @@edeninreallife yes!! My mistake, I had actually first seen it on tiktok under the Sun Yuan and Peng Yu tag, the more I was researching it I realized it was a completely different artist

  • @Lavenderbloods
    @Lavenderbloods 2 роки тому +37

    Is he saying
    "Two to k1ll you
    Three to hold you
    four to blame you
    five to punch you
    six to love/move you
    seven to ice you
    eight to?????????
    nine to put my hand in you"
    ?

  • @kathlenecharbonneau
    @kathlenecharbonneau 2 роки тому +25

    Deep. Profound. True. Disturbing.

  • @tsasjin6907
    @tsasjin6907 2 роки тому +31

    i wonder why am i so sad after watching this? its like abusing a child and like dragging him on the ground and the face for me i felt like he was mad or sad he coulnt escape the abuse and he has been like in basement or jail and abuse him till it dies? (my opinion)

  • @TheAndromedaGalaxi
    @TheAndromedaGalaxi 2 роки тому +15

    I unfortunately relate to this one. I love it though.

  • @echothebot
    @echothebot 2 роки тому +9

    Looks like a Boss Battle in a RPG

  • @scaathreykr
    @scaathreykr Рік тому +3

    Looks cool.

  • @mygoodfriendcosmo
    @mygoodfriendcosmo Рік тому +6

    god i first saw this piece years ago, maybe 2019? and i haven’t been able to get it out of my head since. this piece just makes me sick to my stomach, but not because it’s bad or creepy but because it’s so *real.*

  • @JoeyJo-JoJrShabadoo
    @JoeyJo-JoJrShabadoo 2 роки тому +4

    I remember seeing this this at the Tate Modern in London.

  • @yajaira099023
    @yajaira099023 Рік тому +1

    It makes me sad and at the same time scared

  • @HushtheMag
    @HushtheMag 26 днів тому

    This guy has a hard on for Ragdoll physics lol, seriously though I love how this piece reflects the giddy feeling of elation when you fart in your sleeping girlfriends mouth and it makes a sound like "AAAOUUUUUWAAAOOOO"

  • @audiovirtual5111
    @audiovirtual5111 2 роки тому +2

    BRUTAL

  • @micheallouis4569
    @micheallouis4569 5 років тому +58

    this project cost .5 million

    • @fisticuf
      @fisticuf 3 роки тому +4

      That seems unlikely

    • @tarajones2169
      @tarajones2169 3 роки тому

      @@fisticuf I don't know. The thing is massive! It takes up a whole room.
      ua-cam.com/video/zZbD1fX9Ha4/v-deo.html

    • @whyiine
      @whyiine 2 роки тому +4

      why don't you just say 500 thousand

  • @ettydavis
    @ettydavis 6 років тому +8

    👏👏👏

  • @TheTriumph41
    @TheTriumph41 5 років тому +13

    i got shocked

  • @sofialorenzo1451
    @sofialorenzo1451 Рік тому +12

    Se siente como un niño mal educado. Pero un niño inocente al final de cuentas. He observado qué hay niños que hacen cosas crueles, pero solo porque es lo que aprendieron en sus hogares o entornos. Por eso creo que que varios factores pueden crear a un adulto deplorable. Siento a las cadenas como un castigo y un método preventivo a la vez: castigo por que parece que el niño ha hecho esas cosas antes, y preventivo para que no las vuelva a hacer.

  • @sammiralipi7051
    @sammiralipi7051 2 роки тому +5

    please someone could translate for portuguese what he said?

  • @wednesdayaddams5798
    @wednesdayaddams5798 Рік тому +9

    is it me or did the robot have Betty pop in her eyes in the background? but not in her pupils?

  • @marcopolo9146
    @marcopolo9146 4 роки тому +26

    How I feel today.

  • @alolisa113
    @alolisa113 3 роки тому +33

    What do you think he's counting?

    • @presshum2006
      @presshum2006 2 роки тому +61

      in an interview i read that hes counting a list of things that he wants to do to you/the audience

    • @WhitneyDahlin
      @WhitneyDahlin 2 роки тому +5

      @@presshum2006 thank you!

    • @sx5490
      @sx5490 11 днів тому

      Maybe that’s why he’s chained up.

  • @sucrette4301
    @sucrette4301 Рік тому +4

    What is the whole list of things that the puppet says when it stops...?

    • @ChaoszIsAGoddess7
      @ChaoszIsAGoddess7 Рік тому +2

      What I heard.
      2. To k/ll you
      3. To hold you
      4. To bleed you
      5. To touch you
      6. To move you
      7. To ice you
      8. To put my teeth in you
      9. To put my hand on you
      10. To hand in your hair
      11. Your leg over my shoulder
      12. Your mouth full of coffee
      13. I knew you
      14. I k/lled you
      15. You're blind
      16. you're spoiled
      17. To show you
      18. To weigh you
      Spit Earth.
      16. You lift you
      17

  • @user-cz4de7cv5t
    @user-cz4de7cv5t Рік тому

    它眼球用的什么显示屏,怎么做到这样的曲面。

  • @babeonboard6
    @babeonboard6 2 роки тому +1

    I dont understand the number comments?

  • @themanofteeth
    @themanofteeth 2 роки тому +8

    looks like something straight out of atomic heart *-*

  • @acofa8988
    @acofa8988 3 роки тому +46

    wish those people would stop talking

  • @Mrmoai-rm3pg
    @Mrmoai-rm3pg 2 роки тому +3

    I'm scared now

  • @intheplums
    @intheplums 6 років тому +32

    Damn thats creepy

  • @Galarantxa
    @Galarantxa Місяць тому

    Wow

  • @GoldKnightProduction
    @GoldKnightProduction 7 місяців тому +1

    He says "twelve" twice.

  • @Mattmatt13837n
    @Mattmatt13837n 2 роки тому

    This is terrifying.

  • @ajichiyomie-pipi
    @ajichiyomie-pipi 2 роки тому +7

    SCPかホラーゲームに出てきそう

  • @user-cz1cd2rq7v
    @user-cz1cd2rq7v Рік тому

    А какой он был красивый

  • @Acarecadoseupai
    @Acarecadoseupai Рік тому +2

    Spit. Earth.
    *Gets fucking dragged across the air*

  • @jeannebrislis
    @jeannebrislis Рік тому +13

    1:09
    Omggg I'm so happy for you congrats on comming out of the closet

  • @lastchanc3stars
    @lastchanc3stars 4 місяці тому +2

    I believe this piece represents child abuse. The fiberglass puppet, during its first performance, was shiny and new and had fresh paint. Now, it is grimy and chipped from the dragging around and beatings it takes each day.
    The chains drag its loose body across the stage, hitting it against walls and having it fall to the floor. This loose marionette symbolizes the powerlessness abused children have against their abusers. Their abusers strip them of their innocence [paint] to hurt them.
    The monologue is especially distressing, coming from the point of view of the abuser hurting this child. As seen in-
    "-2. To kill you."
    "3. To hold you."
    "4. To believe you."
    "5. To touch you."
    "6. To move you."
    "7. To ask you."
    "8. To put my teeth in you."
    "9. To put my hand on you."
    "10. Two hands inside your hair."
    "11. Your leg over my shoulder."
    "12. Your mouth full of coffee."
    "12. I knew you."
    "13. I killed you."
    "14. You're blind."
    "15. You're spoiled."
    "16. To lift you."
    "17. To show you."
    "18. To lay you."
    The lack of a number one implies that the child just woke up, or came out of a daze when hearing this. "Spit. Earth." which concludes the speech before the puppet begins to be drug around is spoken by the child. It is a subtle to way to convey the child saying "I hate this place."
    Also, the lines from 8 to 12 imply physical abuse is not the only type of abuse this child suffers from. It implies the child is also suffering from s-xual abuse.
    The projections of dancing candies and the clips of cartoons in the puppet's eyes could represent dissociation, in which to try and metaphorically escape this abusive household, the child imagines good things and a whole fake world where they're in control; hence the puppet no longer being moved during the sequence.
    ~ _I am officially Socrates_

  • @frickermints
    @frickermints 2 роки тому +3

    SPIT EARTH

  • @itz_blondie
    @itz_blondie 2 роки тому +5

    Why does it look like It’s a kid being traumatized?????!!!!!

  • @missbesla
    @missbesla Рік тому

    😢

  • @mishellcabrera520
    @mishellcabrera520 Рік тому +3

    Creo que este es el único comentario en español que encontrarán pero porque le asen eso a ese pobre muñeco y tiene vida propia

  • @caofixemasterplay8698
    @caofixemasterplay8698 2 роки тому +1

    Aqui esta o comentário brasileiro que vc procura

  • @DollsBoredom
    @DollsBoredom 6 років тому +3

    What the

  • @Clarrisani
    @Clarrisani 7 років тому +31

    Looking like it needs a repaint

    • @premiumaccount4166
      @premiumaccount4166 4 роки тому +62

      Clarrisani ‍ its supposed to look like that

    • @mattkirby1089
      @mattkirby1089 3 роки тому +94

      That's the point. The boy's been worn down by abuse

    • @linkonyx6
      @linkonyx6 3 роки тому +2

      No...its to represent

  • @elizabethd6829
    @elizabethd6829 Рік тому

    1:11 alguien me dice la traducción

  • @squidsisterscallieandmarie5874

    Vengo de tiktok

  • @paulauwu2738
    @paulauwu2738 Рік тому +2

    Alguien que hable español y me traduzca lo q dice xD?

    • @normafigueroa6204
      @normafigueroa6204 Рік тому

      Es una lista de cosas raras

    • @tamarjara2281
      @tamarjara2281 Рік тому

      1: matarte
      2:sangrarte
      3:sostenerte
      4:nose

    • @mrpercival5130
      @mrpercival5130 Рік тому

      Son una lista de cosas bastante turbias que la marioneta quiere hacerle al espectador

    • @wenas8374
      @wenas8374 Рік тому

      .....mejor no digo nada :,,c

  • @saravogt2944
    @saravogt2944 2 роки тому +1

    That is creepy

  • @sandenwolff7931
    @sandenwolff7931 7 років тому +8

    Hi! This is a great video! Could you message me? I would love to ask you about it. Thank you! -K

  • @tayamukhina6468
    @tayamukhina6468 Рік тому

    Бедная кукла🥲

  • @LucaLooming
    @LucaLooming Рік тому +1

    I think is like a abusing family that hurt him and says its love

  • @mayacomis3901
    @mayacomis3901 2 роки тому +1

    Cuspir terra

  • @Yaneth_Hrdz
    @Yaneth_Hrdz 3 роки тому +3

    Chucky?

  • @brockenconsole8678
    @brockenconsole8678 2 роки тому

    Creepy

  • @cap6158
    @cap6158 2 роки тому +1

    I dont get it 🥴

  • @PIRUGamer562
    @PIRUGamer562 Рік тому

    Ñ

  • @drvxx1597
    @drvxx1597 Рік тому

    I felt hate towards the kid for some reason

  • @mroxyopia
    @mroxyopia 2 роки тому

    F.A.B!

  • @Beatles_fan297
    @Beatles_fan297 Рік тому

    What

  • @DS-oopa
    @DS-oopa Рік тому +1

    Fire the camera person. I would like to see the whole scene. 🙄

  • @elizabethd6829
    @elizabethd6829 Рік тому

    1:14

  • @oldman6426
    @oldman6426 2 роки тому

    Fnaf

  • @freyasimmons
    @freyasimmons 6 років тому +11

    Satan?

  • @theeclipseshow2432
    @theeclipseshow2432 2 роки тому +1

    I do not like is :(

  • @Sten1
    @Sten1 Рік тому +1

    what is the point? Industrial crane dragging around a non-functional that can move his eyes robot? crap

    • @ibisqo
      @ibisqo Рік тому +5

      so true man, same thing for all those old canvases in museums with paint all over them. what are they good for?

  • @hueginvieny7959
    @hueginvieny7959 2 роки тому +5

    Sorry don't get it and I'm never going to understand how people can be moved by a pointless machine and act like this has such a profound impact on their emotional being.

    • @balakeboma__8706
      @balakeboma__8706 2 роки тому +11

      It’s about childhood abuse

    • @balakeboma__8706
      @balakeboma__8706 2 роки тому +12

      It gets thrown around and it’s made of glass showing how at any moment it could break and

    • @SarnaiViola
      @SarnaiViola 2 роки тому +1

      It's called an artwork dummy

    • @DakiaranyJackson
      @DakiaranyJackson 2 роки тому

      Are you okay? Lol

    • @intensestare5027
      @intensestare5027 Рік тому +1

      @@DakiaranyJackson not everyone is gonna interprete something the same way if at all, personally i thought this was pretty funny. Especially when it was dragged around bc i dont see it as a person so i dont feel sad abt it

  • @Layk35
    @Layk35 3 роки тому +10

    Pretentious

    • @kaleighbea6869
      @kaleighbea6869 3 роки тому +33

      How so?? It’s supposed to represent child abuse

    • @tri-angel
      @tri-angel 3 роки тому +7

      @@kaleighbea6869 I'm not sure that was jordan wolfson's intent, but it definitely could represent that. He seems pretty clear on not disclosing good own interpretations

    • @charliebear154
      @charliebear154 Рік тому

      Closed minded. Lol.

  • @oldman6426
    @oldman6426 2 роки тому

    Fnaf