‘What will you leave behind’ – an art installation in the Ardel Gallery in Bangkok, 2013 by Nino Sarabutra who filled a gallery floor with more than 100,000 miniature porcelain skulls that visitors would walk on. Words from the artist:
‘I want people to ask themselves how they live, what are they doing
– if today was your last on earth, what will you leave behind?’
Nino asked a range of people to help create the skulls – friends, family, neighbors, students, workers etc. While making them, they were asked to contemplate their life and think about what they will leave behind.
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Strangely hypnotic. That would be wonderful to visit and get a 1st hand look at.
Yes true..quite hypnotic indeed
Very subtle art, I love that. I don’t know if I would even notice that it was skulls lol.
Wow, that’s so cool! I love it!
:)
where´s is this? i would love to go
It was in September last year in Bangkok..sorry, maybe there will be a similar exhibition again at some point…
that person was walking on porcelain. OUCH. And it is cool but creepy.
I wanna be there!
What an unusual installation. But the questions that are asked are just as important as the visual and physical sensations of walking upon it.
Creepy and cool! I understand the artist’s serious point behind this piece. Is it bad, however, that I’m also reminded of the Terminator? ;)
heheh :)
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Interesting. <3
thanks for the reblog :)
The skulls even have “expressions”… a brilliant concept. Very thoughtful question.
Love, Mehak
I’m always drawn to art that questions our mortality and what it means to be human.
http://uphilldowndale.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/headspanner/
I’ve been racking my brain trying to remember who the artist was that filled the Turbine Hall with porcelain sunflower seeds, that could be walked on; I got there in the end. http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series-ai-weiwei-sunflower-seeds
I think the artist asked the wrong question.
I think the question, in current times, would be:
“How does it feel to walk over other people’s faces – to get where you’re going?”
Oh my goodness….that was eerily beautiful, creepy, disturbing, and thought-provoking at the same time…0_0
but I don’t think I’d have the guts to walk across that room of skulls without a shudder…:S
Reblogged this on Karen Ellis's Blog and commented:
Amazing and thought provoking. I wonder if this would nudge some folks to ponder altering their momentum, take the other fork in the road?
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