Colored Sculpture close-up - "Manic Love" by Jordon Wolfson - Fondation Luma - Arles

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  • čas přidán 31. 10. 2016
  • I saw a few videos of it on the internet - but none really captured his face like this. Presented at Fondation Luma's Parc des Ateliers in 2016. What would Percy Sledge think? We can hope he would laugh.
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Komentáře • 187

  • @chewingonurguitarstrings6964
    @chewingonurguitarstrings6964 Před 3 lety +1364

    I just saw a video of when he was newer, brighter colors, his eyes look so calm yet so angry, over time he gets beat up by being dragged and dropped, if I’m right that’s a candy add in his eyes, what the child sees on tv, hoping for a happier experience, yet not being able to escape

  • @ceilingfan6969
    @ceilingfan6969 Před rokem +212

    The way the chains sound adds so much to this piece of art. It reminds me of a roller coaster that you regret getting on, where there's no way you can stop it and you just have to accept it.

  • @invaderzimismyfav
    @invaderzimismyfav Před 4 lety +629

    I can't stop thinking about this piece. I saw it two years ago and it's been on my mind ever since. But when people ask me about my favorite piece of art i always have to preface this by explaining "yes i know it's creepy but it's so goooooood"

  • @breonafarcas4953
    @breonafarcas4953 Před 3 lety +883

    As an artist myself, I can feel the grueling sensation of being dragged around. Resting, now awakened, now dragged, tortured, putting a show on for all to see. It really got me when he fell on his head after 'When a man loves a woman' cued in the background. Great piece, I can appreciate it from miles away.

    • @daynawithawhy
      @daynawithawhy Před 2 lety +34

      This piece is about child abuse, not the grueling torture of being an artist

    • @elyssapadilla1311
      @elyssapadilla1311 Před 2 lety +52

      @@daynawithawhy art doesn’t have just one story

    • @ResearchForMyself
      @ResearchForMyself Před 2 lety +6

      Lol you can make anything up about a piece of art

    • @daynawithawhy
      @daynawithawhy Před 2 lety +21

      @@elyssapadilla1311 No, it doesn't have just one story. Art is about interpretation, of course it is, but when the artist conveys and explains his inspiration, his motivation and the messages that he wanted to express and have the viewers take away, I listen

    • @daynawithawhy
      @daynawithawhy Před 2 lety

      @@ResearchForMyself what do you take from this piece?

  • @suefee8642
    @suefee8642 Před 2 lety +187

    The eyes at the beginning are looking with so much pain...fascinating and cruel at the same time

    • @ena9871
      @ena9871 Před rokem +8

      The fact it’s closing it’s eyes and gritting it’s teeth to prepare for the pain it’ll experience hurts too.

  • @bandaid3467
    @bandaid3467 Před 2 lety +395

    The meaning of the art piece is to lock the doll up and drag it around, throwing it, tossing it making it chip its paint because he is being worn down.
    all he wants to do is rest but he cant, he is going insane as this goes on.
    its about abuse and how it wears down the child, causing it to in the end break down and possibly, die in some cases. -✨

    • @420hmm
      @420hmm Před 2 lety +2

      Well said

    • @melinaangelgallegos8290
      @melinaangelgallegos8290 Před rokem +3

      What he says in the minute 1:20 to the 2:00?

    • @LurkingUser
      @LurkingUser Před rokem

      @@melinaangelgallegos8290 I don’t know if I heard all of them correctly
      “2 to kill you
      3 to hold you
      4 to bleed or leave you (?)
      5 to touch you
      6 to move you
      7 to ice you
      8 to put my teeth in you
      9 to put my hand on you
      10 to hand inside your hair (?)
      11 your leg over my shoulder (?)
      12 your mouth full of coffee
      12 I knew you
      13 I killed you
      14 you’re blind
      15 you’re spoiled
      16 to lift you
      17 to show you
      18 to weigh you”

  • @AoiUsagiOtoko
    @AoiUsagiOtoko Před 3 lety +485

    this gives me chills. so much meaning portrayed in such a relatively simple way. i just can't get over it, the raw emotion this evokes

    • @bobzmuda9603
      @bobzmuda9603 Před 2 lety +14

      People always say things like this, but conveniently leave out what that meaning is.
      It's ok. We're sure you got it and it's so profound, you just couldn't bring yourself to mention what it means. That would be crude and baseless, beneath your understanding of the wordless appreciation of art.

    • @amogusamogos
      @amogusamogos Před 2 lety +21

      @@bobzmuda9603 because many have a different interpretation? you are gatekeeping art that you didn't make.

    • @ena9871
      @ena9871 Před rokem +2

      @@bobzmuda9603 you don’t need to be a poet to appreciate art. Even a “wow nice design” is good enough.

    • @anonymous_wednesday
      @anonymous_wednesday Před rokem +2

      @@bobzmuda9603 you dont need a meaning in order to be a human being with emotions
      sorry your programmer forgot your empathy chip ig

    • @tyleriguana
      @tyleriguana Před rokem

      The way the comment you have expressed was not necessary and was pretty rude and disrespectful in a toxic and aggressive tone. What did you mean by everything that you have stated?

  • @mekylovesbts7020
    @mekylovesbts7020 Před 2 lety +154

    wow i saw another video of this piece where he was new and more recent, it’s so crazy how rusty, frustrated, and older he looks now omg, such an interesting art piece

  • @avagates1626
    @avagates1626 Před 2 lety +113

    I see this as what abuse can do to a child, it makes them hate the world, they cant see the good in people, they spiral, they are angry at the people that just sit and watch as the light is being drained out of them, the colors of life are slowly lost, they are filled with hate, they are stuck and want away, everyone has a perfect image of them and constantly complains that they are not that way. It almost seems like a kid who has constantly been told why they are useless and they constantly repeat it to themselves bcuz they have slowly started to think its true.
    Its not creepy, its only scary to you bcuz its realistic

  • @edlyn4756
    @edlyn4756 Před 2 lety +34

    Jesus Christ this scared me. The meaning behind it made me cry and made me want to go in my parents room again

  • @Pinkroomservers
    @Pinkroomservers Před 4 lety +102

    Great work capturing the face!

  • @reKomaAgain
    @reKomaAgain Před 2 lety +58

    When they say the eyes are a window to the soul, they really thought about it

  • @juliusheide3643
    @juliusheide3643 Před 4 lety +151

    i think is him as a child, maybe divorced family, and hate them both, dang makes me remember childhood.

  • @MrJpm1989
    @MrJpm1989 Před 2 lety +46

    Kinda feels like my childhood with a stepfather and mother who died . These would be the harder years

  • @gweenbawng
    @gweenbawng Před 3 lety +27

    i’ve been looking for this forever, it was so hard to find

  • @tsasjin6907
    @tsasjin6907 Před 2 lety +31

    i wonder why am i so sad after watching this? its like abusing a child and like dragging him on the ground and the face for me i felt like he was mad or sad he coulnt escape the abuse and he has been like in basement or jail and abuse him till it dies? (my opinion)

  • @xoxo_boe4116
    @xoxo_boe4116 Před 2 lety +76

    It’s so sad to know wut this whole piece is about 😔 as it literally explains everything makes me sadder

    • @user-666___
      @user-666___ Před 2 lety +13

      Excuse me, but could you please explain what this work of art is about?

    • @Sukfye
      @Sukfye Před 2 lety +13

      @@user-666___ I saw a comment where they said the artist of this piece said it was about child abuse but unsure.

    • @darielysoto2977
      @darielysoto2977 Před 2 lety +3

      @@user-666___ honestly all of Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s pieces are up for everyone’s own interpretation. But most people see it as the using or abuse of a child.

    • @edeninreallife
      @edeninreallife Před 2 lety +18

      @@darielysoto2977 this is by jordan wolfson, not those two btw 👀

    • @darielysoto2977
      @darielysoto2977 Před 2 lety +2

      @@edeninreallife yes!! My mistake, I had actually first seen it on tiktok under the Sun Yuan and Peng Yu tag, the more I was researching it I realized it was a completely different artist

  • @Lavenderbloods
    @Lavenderbloods Před 2 lety +38

    Is he saying
    "Two to k1ll you
    Three to hold you
    four to blame you
    five to punch you
    six to love/move you
    seven to ice you
    eight to?????????
    nine to put my hand in you"
    ?

    • @icee8820
      @icee8820 Před 2 lety

      “Right to put my teeth in you”

    • @jaysssvrss
      @jaysssvrss Před 2 lety +4

      In number 5 it says "touch you"

    • @Gwiwazda
      @Gwiwazda Před rokem +1

      Eight to put my (idk how to write somehow) in you I think it said

    • @mrpercival5130
      @mrpercival5130 Před rokem

      @@jaysssvrss what!

    • @mrpercival5130
      @mrpercival5130 Před rokem

      4- bleed you
      D':

  • @kathlenecharbonneau
    @kathlenecharbonneau Před 2 lety +25

    Deep. Profound. True. Disturbing.

  • @TheAndromedaGalaxi
    @TheAndromedaGalaxi Před 2 lety +15

    I unfortunately relate to this one. I love it though.

  • @mygoodfriendcosmo
    @mygoodfriendcosmo Před rokem +6

    god i first saw this piece years ago, maybe 2019? and i haven’t been able to get it out of my head since. this piece just makes me sick to my stomach, but not because it’s bad or creepy but because it’s so *real.*

  • @sammiralipi7051
    @sammiralipi7051 Před 2 lety +5

    please someone could translate for portuguese what he said?

  • @JoeyJo-JoJrShabadoo
    @JoeyJo-JoJrShabadoo Před 2 lety +4

    I remember seeing this this at the Tate Modern in London.

  • @scaathreykr
    @scaathreykr Před rokem +3

    Looks cool.

  • @echothebot
    @echothebot Před 2 lety +9

    Looks like a Boss Battle in a RPG

  • @audiovirtual5111
    @audiovirtual5111 Před 2 lety +2

    BRUTAL

  • @yajaira099023
    @yajaira099023 Před 2 lety +1

    It makes me sad and at the same time scared

  • @user-cz4de7cv5t
    @user-cz4de7cv5t Před rokem

    它眼球用的什么显示屏,怎么做到这样的曲面。

  • @babeonboard6
    @babeonboard6 Před 2 lety +1

    I dont understand the number comments?

  • @sofialorenzo1451
    @sofialorenzo1451 Před 2 lety +13

    Se siente como un niño mal educado. Pero un niño inocente al final de cuentas. He observado qué hay niños que hacen cosas crueles, pero solo porque es lo que aprendieron en sus hogares o entornos. Por eso creo que que varios factores pueden crear a un adulto deplorable. Siento a las cadenas como un castigo y un método preventivo a la vez: castigo por que parece que el niño ha hecho esas cosas antes, y preventivo para que no las vuelva a hacer.

  • @TheTriumph41
    @TheTriumph41 Před 5 lety +13

    i got shocked

  • @sucrette4301
    @sucrette4301 Před 2 lety +4

    What is the whole list of things that the puppet says when it stops...?

    • @ChaoszIsAGoddess7
      @ChaoszIsAGoddess7 Před rokem +2

      What I heard.
      2. To k/ll you
      3. To hold you
      4. To bleed you
      5. To touch you
      6. To move you
      7. To ice you
      8. To put my teeth in you
      9. To put my hand on you
      10. To hand in your hair
      11. Your leg over my shoulder
      12. Your mouth full of coffee
      13. I knew you
      14. I k/lled you
      15. You're blind
      16. you're spoiled
      17. To show you
      18. To weigh you
      Spit Earth.
      16. You lift you
      17

  • @wednesdayaddams5798
    @wednesdayaddams5798 Před 2 lety +9

    is it me or did the robot have Betty pop in her eyes in the background? but not in her pupils?

  • @alolisa113
    @alolisa113 Před 3 lety +33

    What do you think he's counting?

    • @presshum2006
      @presshum2006 Před 3 lety +61

      in an interview i read that hes counting a list of things that he wants to do to you/the audience

    • @WhitneyDahlin
      @WhitneyDahlin Před 2 lety +5

      @@presshum2006 thank you!

    • @sx5490
      @sx5490 Před měsícem

      Maybe that’s why he’s chained up.

  • @ettydavis
    @ettydavis Před 7 lety +8

    👏👏👏

  • @marcopolo9146
    @marcopolo9146 Před 4 lety +26

    How I feel today.

  • @micheallouis4569
    @micheallouis4569 Před 5 lety +58

    this project cost .5 million

    • @fisticuf
      @fisticuf Před 3 lety +5

      That seems unlikely

    • @tarajones2169
      @tarajones2169 Před 3 lety

      @@fisticuf I don't know. The thing is massive! It takes up a whole room.
      czcams.com/video/zZbD1fX9Ha4/video.html

    • @whyiine
      @whyiine Před 2 lety +4

      why don't you just say 500 thousand

  • @Galarantxa
    @Galarantxa Před měsícem

    Wow

  • @Mrmoai-rm3pg
    @Mrmoai-rm3pg Před 2 lety +3

    I'm scared now

  • @GoldKnightProduction
    @GoldKnightProduction Před 7 měsíci +2

    He says "twelve" twice.

  • @themanofteeth
    @themanofteeth Před 2 lety +8

    looks like something straight out of atomic heart *-*

  • @ajichiyomie-pipi
    @ajichiyomie-pipi Před 2 lety +7

    SCPかホラーゲームに出てきそう

  • @jeannebrislis
    @jeannebrislis Před 2 lety +13

    1:09
    Omggg I'm so happy for you congrats on comming out of the closet

  • @intheplums
    @intheplums Před 6 lety +32

    Damn thats creepy

  • @user-cz1cd2rq7v
    @user-cz1cd2rq7v Před rokem

    А какой он был красивый

  • @acofa8988
    @acofa8988 Před 3 lety +46

    wish those people would stop talking

  • @Nexzzi0
    @Nexzzi0 Před 2 lety +1

    Aqui esta o comentário brasileiro que vc procura

  • @KrumbCrackhead
    @KrumbCrackhead Před rokem +2

    Spit. Earth.
    *Gets fucking dragged across the air*

  • @frickermints
    @frickermints Před 2 lety +3

    SPIT EARTH

  • @Mattmatt13837n
    @Mattmatt13837n Před 2 lety

    This is terrifying.

  • @DollsBoredom
    @DollsBoredom Před 6 lety +3

    What the

  • @missbesla
    @missbesla Před rokem

    😢

  • @elizabethd6829
    @elizabethd6829 Před rokem

    1:11 alguien me dice la traducción

  • @itz_blondie
    @itz_blondie Před 2 lety +5

    Why does it look like It’s a kid being traumatized?????!!!!!

  • @mishellcabrera520
    @mishellcabrera520 Před rokem +3

    Creo que este es el único comentario en español que encontrarán pero porque le asen eso a ese pobre muñeco y tiene vida propia

  • @Clarrisani
    @Clarrisani Před 7 lety +31

    Looking like it needs a repaint

    • @pa4o93ir49
      @pa4o93ir49 Před 4 lety +62

      Clarrisani ‍ its supposed to look like that

    • @mattkirby1089
      @mattkirby1089 Před 3 lety +95

      That's the point. The boy's been worn down by abuse

    • @linkonyx6
      @linkonyx6 Před 3 lety +2

      No...its to represent

  • @squidsisterscallieandmarie5874

    Vengo de tiktok

  • @lastchanc3stars
    @lastchanc3stars Před 4 měsíci +3

    I believe this piece represents child abuse. The fiberglass puppet, during its first performance, was shiny and new and had fresh paint. Now, it is grimy and chipped from the dragging around and beatings it takes each day.
    The chains drag its loose body across the stage, hitting it against walls and having it fall to the floor. This loose marionette symbolizes the powerlessness abused children have against their abusers. Their abusers strip them of their innocence [paint] to hurt them.
    The monologue is especially distressing, coming from the point of view of the abuser hurting this child. As seen in-
    "-2. To kill you."
    "3. To hold you."
    "4. To believe you."
    "5. To touch you."
    "6. To move you."
    "7. To ask you."
    "8. To put my teeth in you."
    "9. To put my hand on you."
    "10. Two hands inside your hair."
    "11. Your leg over my shoulder."
    "12. Your mouth full of coffee."
    "12. I knew you."
    "13. I killed you."
    "14. You're blind."
    "15. You're spoiled."
    "16. To lift you."
    "17. To show you."
    "18. To lay you."
    The lack of a number one implies that the child just woke up, or came out of a daze when hearing this. "Spit. Earth." which concludes the speech before the puppet begins to be drug around is spoken by the child. It is a subtle to way to convey the child saying "I hate this place."
    Also, the lines from 8 to 12 imply physical abuse is not the only type of abuse this child suffers from. It implies the child is also suffering from s-xual abuse.
    The projections of dancing candies and the clips of cartoons in the puppet's eyes could represent dissociation, in which to try and metaphorically escape this abusive household, the child imagines good things and a whole fake world where they're in control; hence the puppet no longer being moved during the sequence.
    ~ _I am officially Socrates_

  • @paulauwu2738
    @paulauwu2738 Před 2 lety +2

    Alguien que hable español y me traduzca lo q dice xD?

    • @tamarjara2281
      @tamarjara2281 Před 2 lety

      1: matarte
      2:sangrarte
      3:sostenerte
      4:nose

    • @mrpercival5130
      @mrpercival5130 Před 2 lety

      Son una lista de cosas bastante turbias que la marioneta quiere hacerle al espectador

    • @wenas8374
      @wenas8374 Před rokem

      .....mejor no digo nada :,,c

  • @sandenwolff7931
    @sandenwolff7931 Před 7 lety +8

    Hi! This is a great video! Could you message me? I would love to ask you about it. Thank you! -K

  • @saravogt2944
    @saravogt2944 Před 2 lety +1

    That is creepy

  • @Yaneth_Hrdz
    @Yaneth_Hrdz Před 3 lety +3

    Chucky?

  • @MumiMellow
    @MumiMellow Před rokem +1

    I think is like a abusing family that hurt him and says its love

  • @brockenconsole8678
    @brockenconsole8678 Před 2 lety

    Creepy

  • @mayacomis3901
    @mayacomis3901 Před 2 lety +1

    Cuspir terra

  • @cap6158
    @cap6158 Před 2 lety +1

    I dont get it 🥴

  • @Beatles_fan297
    @Beatles_fan297 Před rokem

    What

  • @tayamukhina6468
    @tayamukhina6468 Před rokem

    Бедная кукла🥲

  • @HushtheMag
    @HushtheMag Před měsícem

    This guy has a hard on for Ragdoll physics lol, seriously though I love how this piece reflects the giddy feeling of elation when you fart in your sleeping girlfriends mouth and it makes a sound like "AAAOUUUUUWAAAOOOO"

  • @mroxyopia
    @mroxyopia Před 2 lety

    F.A.B!

  • @PIRUGamer562
    @PIRUGamer562 Před rokem

    Ñ

  • @drvxx1597
    @drvxx1597 Před 2 lety

    I felt hate towards the kid for some reason

  • @DS-oopa
    @DS-oopa Před rokem +1

    Fire the camera person. I would like to see the whole scene. 🙄

  • @oldman6426
    @oldman6426 Před 2 lety

    Fnaf

  • @elizabethd6829
    @elizabethd6829 Před rokem

    1:14

  • @freyasimmons
    @freyasimmons Před 6 lety +11

    Satan?

  • @theeclipseshow2432
    @theeclipseshow2432 Před 2 lety +1

    I do not like is :(

  • @Sten1
    @Sten1 Před rokem +1

    what is the point? Industrial crane dragging around a non-functional that can move his eyes robot? crap

    • @ibisqo
      @ibisqo Před rokem +5

      so true man, same thing for all those old canvases in museums with paint all over them. what are they good for?

  • @hueginvieny7959
    @hueginvieny7959 Před 2 lety +5

    Sorry don't get it and I'm never going to understand how people can be moved by a pointless machine and act like this has such a profound impact on their emotional being.

    • @balakeboma__8706
      @balakeboma__8706 Před 2 lety +11

      It’s about childhood abuse

    • @balakeboma__8706
      @balakeboma__8706 Před 2 lety +12

      It gets thrown around and it’s made of glass showing how at any moment it could break and

    • @SarnaiViola
      @SarnaiViola Před 2 lety +1

      It's called an artwork dummy

    • @DakiaranyJackson
      @DakiaranyJackson Před 2 lety

      Are you okay? Lol

    • @intensestare5027
      @intensestare5027 Před 2 lety +1

      @@DakiaranyJackson not everyone is gonna interprete something the same way if at all, personally i thought this was pretty funny. Especially when it was dragged around bc i dont see it as a person so i dont feel sad abt it

  • @Layk35
    @Layk35 Před 3 lety +10

    Pretentious

    • @kaleighbea6869
      @kaleighbea6869 Před 3 lety +33

      How so?? It’s supposed to represent child abuse

    • @tri-angel
      @tri-angel Před 3 lety +7

      @@kaleighbea6869 I'm not sure that was jordan wolfson's intent, but it definitely could represent that. He seems pretty clear on not disclosing good own interpretations

    • @charliebear154
      @charliebear154 Před rokem

      Closed minded. Lol.

  • @oldman6426
    @oldman6426 Před 2 lety

    Fnaf