Orchids, or a hemispherical bottom poster

Orchids, or a hemispherical bottom

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Orchids,… centers on an animated video in which Marten sets forth a sanitised and alluring world of free-floating and fragmentary objects. Excised from normal context and imbued with an impossible cosmetic sheen, these crystalline forms are conjured in colours that range from the surreally heightened to the deliberately banal. A line of toy-like objects – a train, a giraffe on wheels, a boat – trundles along on an impossibly turquoise plane. Parasitically followed by a swirling black fly, the unfolding narrative is one of production, consumption and saturation. Elsewhere, the naked human backside of the title (cropped and anonymous) is shown with a luridly-glowing orchid tucked between its buttocks. At points, the imagery takes on the semblance of a painting or diagram, both formulaic ‘analogues’ of reality, like the video itself, implying the knotty weight of a Cézanne still life.

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Status
Released
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Language
EN
  • digital video
  • video art
  • animation

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Director

Helen Marten

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Release dates

  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical15 Oct 2013

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Orchids, or a hemispherical bottom was released on 15 October 2013.

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