Nicolas Provost, Belgian, born 1969. Papillon d’amour, 2003. 4:00 minutes.
Papillon d’amour
February 1, 2019 - February 28, 2019
Security Credit Union GalleryBy subjecting fragments from Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon to a mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of a woman’s reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. This physical audiovisual experience produces skewed reflections upon love, its lyrical monstrosities, and a wounded act of disappearance.
