Sybille II
The subject of Sybille II by Wim Delvoye is the skin. The magic of the work lies in the use of extreme close-ups. They cause the pictures to at first look like an imaginary, lifeless landscape. After several minutes worm-like objects on the surface come to life. Suddenly the true nature of the images is revealed. Delvoye creates a work of art that confounds our conventional notion of what constitutes the beautiful. The film shows a series of sequences in which various forms, invariably in tones of white and ivory, seem to emerge from nowhere in a delicately cross-stitched landscape. These apparent creatures are mesmerizing, as they weave about in a space the viewer can’t initially locate. At a certain point (it took me a number of minutes) you realize that you’re not seeing exotic, underwater life, but extreme close-up views of people squeezing blackheads. The dancing forms are filaments of pus released from under the skin, and their explosive appearance in the frame suddenly reads as grotesque and not pleasing. “I want to portray human beings as a kind of organic living being, that’s what they are actually, an organism,” Delvoye has said, and a number of his pieces use a scatalogical frame to articulate that organic nature.
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Is this one person? In one sitting? I thought I’ve had some ‘doozies’ before, but watching this video… I don’t think I’ve ever clenched my entire body that hard or for that long.
fuck if you can pop some black heads and call it art i got a real doozie for you when i shit on cars from a bridge on the high way NOW THATS ART!!!
TO JEDIMASTER92 these pimples are not from one person alot of people on here think the same thing but if you will go to your top right hand corner where it says (more info)push that and read what it has to say
a) it’s not PUS we’re seeing, it’s sebum.
b) it could be from any part of the body(bodies, in this case) where excess sebum is created.
c) A lot of you seem to have missed the point altogether. All these details are largely irrelevant. The fact remains that this is brilliant bit of film art (with an odd subject).
d) What did you expect, an “director’s commentary” feature??
if you understood the appealing nature of extracting zits then you wouldnt be so fucking rude you bloody prick. im sure you have disgusting habits that people would think were sick too so shut your face you assfuck.
I don’t see any negative comments or thumb’s down signs, do you?
better out than dirty in! get that shit out! and if you think this is so bad, why are you watching?
cool