
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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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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