The Diamond (Descartes' Daughter) (2008)

Emily Wardill

16 mm colour print film projection with sound plus internegative

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

The Diamond (Descartes' Daughter) (2008)

Classification:

Moving Image

Materials:

16mm film, Sound, Digital video

Dimensions:

15 minutes

Accession Number:

ABDAG017131

Credit:

Purchased through the Contemporary Art Society’s Acquisitions Scheme for Aberdeen Art Gallery, 2008-2009

Scheme:

Fine Art Acquisition Scheme (2008-)

Ownership history:

Purchased from FORTESCUE AVENUE/Jonathan Viner, London by the Contemporary Art Society, 11 January 2010; presented to Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, 2010

Relationship:

Fortescue Avenue / Jonathan Viner, London Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

In this experimental film work there exists a narrative of sorts that emerges from the artist’s own experience of remembering a scene in a film. Wardill relates this to the apocryphal anecdote relating to the famous French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes and the story of the death of Descartes’ daughter. She uses this myth as a metaphor for her own search. The words are delivered in a mechanical sounding Swedish accent and seem to shatter like a crystal refracting light.

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