Artist: Anish Kapoor
Title: Svayambh
Year: 2007
Installation view at: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
Photo Credits: Cécile Clos
Courtesy: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes

“Anish Kapoor has chosen to show Svayambh, a monumental installation extending across the entire ground floor. This work comprises a gigantic block of red wax transported by a flatcar that gradually crosses the exhibition space on rails set 150 centimetres above the floor. Cumbrously the flatcar makes its way through the arches of the patio, leaving dramatic strips of its wax cargo on the pillars in a painful but inexorable advance that can be read as an allegory of memory and history – two themes central to the museum’s functioning. The fifteen tons of red matter that are slowly worn away by the arches speak to us of the suffering of human beings caught up in the mysterious workings of destiny…..”
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