Still from the film The Beaches of Agnès (2008), directed by Agnès Varda Credit: Agnès Varda
A new book by Professor Emma Wilson from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages looks at how death is addressed through modern artworks based in visual media. Art and its creation can be used to organise experience, the editing process allowing a sense of control in the face of brute, annihilating emotions." - —Professor Emma Wilson You don't see her slip away, even though you are watching. A woman lies motionless in bed for 13 minutes, attended at intervals by nurses and her daughter - the artist Sophie Calle. Without these intrusions you might think you were looking at a still photograph. By the end of the film clip the woman has moved from life to death, but the point at which she dies remains invisible. The clip is part of an art installation by Calle called You Couldn't Capture Death , which is one of the contemporary artworks explored by Professor Emma Wilson from the Department of French in her new book Love, Mortality and the Moving Image . In the book, Wilson's research involves moving image artists who are working with the space between life and death in a variety of ways - from home movies to photographic collages.
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