The accompanying music video for IU's "Love Wins All" plays more like a short film than the usual K-pop accompaniment. At just 5-minutes 23-seconds, the tone is set early on. A young woman and her boyfriend (portrayed by BTS vocalist V) are running away from something sinister, which appears to be a gigantic floating box. And while that might sound ridiculous, IU and V absolutely sell the storyline with their acting — so much so that you will feel their fear.
Their faces are bloodied and their clothes are torn. And when they escape into an abandoned building hoping to find shelter from whatever it is that’s chasing them, they stare off at a mountain of discarded clothing that towers over them.
At this point, I immediately knew that death was imminent.
Video projection (13 hrs., 6 sec.), flowers, hay, one bench
Dimensions variables
❝Mon métier c'est de poser des questions. À la différence de nombreux philosophes, je ne pense pas avoir de réponse. Je ne pose pas de questions en mots, mais avec des émotions visuelles ou sonores.❞
Exposition Art Blog Christian Boltanski - Conceptual Art
Christian Boltanski (1944 – 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French conceptual style Boltanski habitually came back to the theme of how we mourn and memorialize our dead. The Holocaust had cast a shadow over his own upbringing, but his numerous "memorial projects" also connected to the more universal themes of memory, history, and one's own mortality. Indeed, the spectre of death loomed over Boltanski who once stated that making art was his only means of staying alive; a "thing to do so that I don't die", as he put it.
From: Christian Boltanski & Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Les mots à secrets, ['Une rêverie émanée de mes loisirs', Livre III], Yvon Lambert Éditions, Paris, 1993, Limited edition of 150 copies, including 42 non-commercial copies, signed and numbered by the artist
Tiroir (1988) Christian Boltanski – collection privée – Photographie de Zoé Balthus à Londres (2010)
Boltanski crée des mythes
Christian Boltanski – Chaque personne est unique, et chacune est très vulnérable, il y a une contradiction entre l'importance de chaque être et sa vulnérabilité. Alors, il y a eu ce désir chez moi d'explorer ce que l'on peut sauver. Mais en fait, j’ai compris que l’on ne peut rien sauver. C'est en effet une réflexion sur la possibilité de sauver une transmission.