© Bill Viola. Photo: Kira Perov
Nantes Triptych
Artist: Bill Viola (born 1951)
Location: Tate
Date: 1992
Materials: video/sound installation
Dimensions: 460 x 970 x 1680cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £15,000 (Total: £120,613)
Vendor: Donald Young Gallery
Review number: 4073 (1994)
Provenance:
The artist; Donald Young Gallery.
Description:
Three large-scale panels of projected video images form a configuration based on the tripych altarpiece. The left panel shows an image of a young woman in the process of giving birth. the right panel shows an image of an old woman in the process of dying. Both are documents of actual events. The central panel shows an image of a clothed man underwater moving through alternate stages of turbulence and undulating stillness, held in fragile suspension before an indistinct, shadowy space, suspended between birth and death.
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