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JOSHUA WEBB
APATHY FOR THE SETTING SUN
GALERIE DÜSSELDORF
10 April - 8 May 2011

Captain of your soul. 2011
6 minutes
Edition of 3
Looped high definition digital film &
sculptural installation
Sculptural version POA
300x300x800mm (LxWxH)
(fire, candles, Duct tape and a urethane arm)
$1000


The looped six-minute high definition
digital film Captain of your soul (2009)
is my own attempt to activate a
contemporary vanitas motif and
capture its diffused time.
The terror of time within the work is
made present initially within the
entropic nature inherent to the
decomposing materiality within the
sculpture itself.
An economy of materials, fire, candles,
duct tape and a cast urethane arm is
transformed into a glistening
balkanized abstraction of a chandelier,
spinning towards entropic collapse
within a black void.
The human bodies decay, its pending death
is personified within the pieces melting
rigidity and within its initial state of
bricolaged imperfection as a
chandelier composed from sculptural debris.