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Nantes Triptych

Bill Viola, 1992

Bill Viola, Nantes Triptych, 1992, Tate, Art Funded 1994
© Bill Viola. Courtesy Tate

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.

More information

Title of artwork, date

Nantes Triptych, 1992

Date supported

1994

Medium and material

Video and sound installation

Dimensions

460 x 970 x 1680 cm

Grant

15,000

Total cost

120,613

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