SI BEAUX, SI MORTS

SO BEAUTIFUL, SO DEAD

of SAPIN Véronique

FRANCE, 2024, 00:02:09

Production : SAPIN Véronique
Genre : Video art
Keyword : Movement, Text

Summary :
Concept: The picture shows a museum collection of hundreds of beetles lined up in the same direction. They vary in<br />size and color. The image scrolls upwards through the rows of insects, while a list of paradigms linking the notion of<br />beauty to that of death runs in parallel (see list below).<br /><br />Statement: In the history of painting and sculpture, scenes of death and suffering are innumerable: The Laocoon, The<br />Supplication of Marsyas, Judith Beheading Holofernes, The Massacre of the Innocents... Our interest is essentially<br />aesthetic, attached to the formal qualities of the work as it is to the color of the beetles nailed to a board in the museum.<br /><br />The diversity and luminosity of their colors are impressive. You can't help but admire them. But what exactly are we<br />admiring? Aesthetic pleasure seems to overlook the death of insects, leaving only the fascinating beauty of their colors. As with art and theater, the contemplation of beetle corpses provokes distanced affects that vary from one individual to another. Beauty and death are notions derived from experiences, beliefs and values that influence the way an individual perceives reality and reacts to that perception. When we realize that our aesthetic pleasure has been imposed in the face of the reality of what it covers, a list of contradictory observations emerges in the form of paradigms linking beauty and death. (V&eacute;ronique Sapin)

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