1978 | five photographs after Samuel Beckett

Title: five photographs after Samuel Beckett
Material: 5 photographic prints from original polaroids + Beckett text
Dimension: each 112 cm x 90 cm
Year: 1978

frame 1
frame 1: the position

 

frame 3: a smart gesture of despair
frame 3: a smart gesture of despair

 

frame 2: the negation
frame 2: the negation

 

frame 4: point of departure
frame 4: point of departure

 

frame 5: the conclusion
frame 5: the conclusion

“The knuckles stood out white under the skin in the usual way – that was the position. The hands then opened quite correctly to the utmost limit of their compass – that was the negation. It nowIt now seemed to Murphy that there were two equally legitimate ways in which the gesture might be concluded, and the sublation effected. The hands might be clapped to the head in a smart gesture of despair, or let fall limply to the seams of the trousers, supposing that to have been their point of departure. Judge then of his annoyance when Neary clenched them again more violently than before and dashed them against his breast-bone.”
Murphy, Samuel Beckett, 1936

Richard Dunn
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