Oona Grimes & Tony Grisoni – Muskaan Singh
Oona Grimes & Tony Grisoni – Muskaan Singh
Oona Grimes & Tony Grisoni – Muskaan Singh
Oona Grimes & Tony Grisoni – Muskaan Singh
Title: Etruscan moth
Date: 2020
Medium: iPhone film, 4:51 min
Artist: Oona Grimes & Tony Grisoni – Muskaan Singh
Music: Music composed by Jem Finer
Exhibition: Ideas Travel Faster than Light, 2020
Etruscan moth, 2020
‘If I do hunt a butterfly, I begin to despise it when caught.’ Sir James Brooke
The silk worm moth appears as joker - quick, androgynous, playful, seductive. The lepidopterist is at first Buster Keaton-esque - a comic shape against the foliage. It is only as he draws closer, and the moth’s brief life expires that we see his true monstrous nature. It is a kind of proof of “our skill against the hostile and alien forces”.
Reading – Virginia Woolf
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