Bess
- 2013
- 3m
On the right side of the screen flashes the translated words of Mallarme's sonnet: 'Pour votre chere morte, son ami...' (a sonnet written for a friend whose wife has passed). In the particul... Read allOn the right side of the screen flashes the translated words of Mallarme's sonnet: 'Pour votre chere morte, son ami...' (a sonnet written for a friend whose wife has passed). In the particular sonnet Mallarme describes his friend's grief and the wife's death as a 'double tomb'. T... Read allOn the right side of the screen flashes the translated words of Mallarme's sonnet: 'Pour votre chere morte, son ami...' (a sonnet written for a friend whose wife has passed). In the particular sonnet Mallarme describes his friend's grief and the wife's death as a 'double tomb'. The video is set up to mimic this closeness of grief and death. The bess beetle (a stand in... Read all