Colored Sculpture close-up - "Manic Love" by Jordon Wolfson - Fondation Luma - Arles

I saw a few videos of it on the internet - but none really captured his face like this. Presented at Fondation Luma's Parc des Ateliers in 2016. What would Percy Sledge think? We can hope he would laugh.

[@chewingonurguitarstrings6964]

I just saw a video of when he was newer, brighter colors, his eyes look so calm yet so angry, over time he gets beat up by being dragged and dropped, if I’m right that’s a candy add in his eyes, what the child sees on tv, hoping for a happier experience, yet not being able to escape

[@ilroseli6669]

IKR I JUST SAW THAT TOO LIKE the. Hold in the background who knows how old she is now

[@Itz_yuriilol11]

What is the vid? That he/she was much met brighter and new?

[@fabqatar3853]

I saw Betty boop-

[@melinaangelgallegos8290]

1:19-2:03 can u say me what he says?

[@bryleec2w]

KARKAT

[@ceilingfan6969]

The way the chains sound adds so much to this piece of art. It reminds me of a roller coaster that you regret getting on, where there's no way you can stop it and you just have to accept it.

[@Leandro.5827]

chillls

[@invaderzimismyfav]

I can't stop thinking about this piece. I saw it two years ago and it's been on my mind ever since. But when people ask me about my favorite piece of art i always have to preface this by explaining "yes i know it's creepy but it's so goooooood"

[@4usprosperity]

My talking further notice

[@suefee8642]

The eyes at the beginning are looking with so much pain...fascinating and cruel at the same time

[@ena9871]

The fact it’s closing it’s eyes and gritting it’s teeth to prepare for the pain it’ll experience hurts too.

[@AoiUsagiOtoko]

this gives me chills. so much meaning portrayed in such a relatively simple way. i just can't get over it, the raw emotion this evokes

[@bobzmuda9603]

People always say things like this, but conveniently leave out what that meaning is. It's ok. We're sure you got it and it's so profound, you just couldn't bring yourself to mention what it means. That would be crude and baseless, beneath your understanding of the wordless appreciation of art.

[@amogusamogos]

@@bobzmuda9603 because many have a different interpretation? you are gatekeeping art that you didn't make.

[@ena9871]

@@bobzmuda9603 you don’t need to be a poet to appreciate art. Even a “wow nice design” is good enough.

[@anonymous_wednesday]

@@bobzmuda9603 you dont need a meaning in order to be a human being with emotions sorry your programmer forgot your empathy chip ig

[@tyleriguana]

The way the comment you have expressed was not necessary and was pretty rude and disrespectful in a toxic and aggressive tone. What did you mean by everything that you have stated?

[@bandaid3467]

The meaning of the art piece is to lock the doll up and drag it around, throwing it, tossing it making it chip its paint because he is being worn down. all he wants to do is rest but he cant, he is going insane as this goes on. its about abuse and how it wears down the child, causing it to in the end break down and possibly, die in some cases. -✨

[@420hmm]

Well said

[@melinaangelgallegos8290]

What he says in the minute 1:20 to the 2:00?

[@LurkingUser]

@@melinaangelgallegos8290 I don’t know if I heard all of them correctly “2 to kill you 3 to hold you 4 to bleed or leave you (?) 5 to touch you 6 to move you 7 to ice you 8 to put my teeth in you 9 to put my hand on you 10 to hand inside your hair (?) 11 your leg over my shoulder (?) 12 your mouth full of coffee 12 I knew you 13 I killed you 14 you’re blind 15 you’re spoiled 16 to lift you 17 to show you 18 to weigh you”

[@breonafarcas4953]

As an artist myself, I can feel the grueling sensation of being dragged around. Resting, now awakened, now dragged, tortured, putting a show on for all to see. It really got me when he fell on his head after 'When a man loves a woman' cued in the background. Great piece, I can appreciate it from miles away.

[@daynawithawhy]

This piece is about child abuse, not the grueling torture of being an artist

[@elyssapadilla1311]

@@daynawithawhy art doesn’t have just one story

[@ResearchForMyself]

Lol you can make anything up about a piece of art

[@daynawithawhy]

@@elyssapadilla1311 No, it doesn't have just one story. Art is about interpretation, of course it is, but when the artist conveys and explains his inspiration, his motivation and the messages that he wanted to express and have the viewers take away, I listen

[@daynawithawhy]

@@ResearchForMyself what do you take from this piece?

[@mekylovesbts7020]

wow i saw another video of this piece where he was new and more recent, it’s so crazy how rusty, frustrated, and older he looks now omg, such an interesting art piece

[@edlyn4756]

Jesus Christ this scared me. The meaning behind it made me cry and made me want to go in my parents room again

[@avagates1626]

I see this as what abuse can do to a child, it makes them hate the world, they cant see the good in people, they spiral, they are angry at the people that just sit and watch as the light is being drained out of them, the colors of life are slowly lost, they are filled with hate, they are stuck and want away, everyone has a perfect image of them and constantly complains that they are not that way. It almost seems like a kid who has constantly been told why they are useless and they constantly repeat it to themselves bcuz they have slowly started to think its true. Its not creepy, its only scary to you bcuz its realistic

[@Pinkroomservers]

Great work capturing the face!

[@reKomaAgain]

When they say the eyes are a window to the soul, they really thought about it

[@juliusheide3643]

i think is him as a child, maybe divorced family, and hate them both, dang makes me remember childhood.

[@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631]

Toy story . Utter bore. Artist Statement overload

[@worldwaide]

The artist has expressed that this piece is not autobiographical

[@MrJpm1989]

Kinda feels like my childhood with a stepfather and mother who died . These would be the harder years

[@gweenbawng]

i’ve been looking for this forever, it was so hard to find

[@xoxo_boe4116]

It’s so sad to know wut this whole piece is about 😔 as it literally explains everything makes me sadder

[@user-666___]

Excuse me, but could you please explain what this work of art is about?

[@Sukfye]

@@user-666___ I saw a comment where they said the artist of this piece said it was about child abuse but unsure.

[@darielysoto2977]

@@user-666___ honestly all of Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s pieces are up for everyone’s own interpretation. But most people see it as the using or abuse of a child.

[@edeninreallife]

@@darielysoto2977 this is by jordan wolfson, not those two btw 👀

[@darielysoto2977]

@@edeninreallife yes!! My mistake, I had actually first seen it on tiktok under the Sun Yuan and Peng Yu tag, the more I was researching it I realized it was a completely different artist

[@tsasjin6907]

i wonder why am i so sad after watching this? its like abusing a child and like dragging him on the ground and the face for me i felt like he was mad or sad he coulnt escape the abuse and he has been like in basement or jail and abuse him till it dies? (my opinion)

[@kathlenecharbonneau]

Deep. Profound. True. Disturbing.

[@invalid_mangle1516]

Is he saying "Two to k1ll you Three to hold you four to blame you five to punch you six to love/move you seven to ice you eight to????????? nine to put my hand in you" ?

[@icee8820]

“Right to put my teeth in you”

[@jaysssvrss]

In number 5 it says "touch you"

[@Equinota]

Eight to put my (idk how to write somehow) in you I think it said

[@mrpercival5130]

@@jaysssvrss what!

[@mrpercival5130]

4- bleed you D':

[@TheAndromedaGalaxi]

I unfortunately relate to this one. I love it though.

[@HushtheMag]

This guy has a hard on for Ragdoll physics lol, seriously though I love how this piece reflects the giddy feeling of elation when you fart in your sleeping girlfriends mouth and it makes a sound like "AAAOUUUUUWAAAOOOO"

[@mygoodfriendcosmo]

god i first saw this piece years ago, maybe 2019? and i haven’t been able to get it out of my head since. this piece just makes me sick to my stomach, but not because it’s bad or creepy but because it’s so *real.*

[@JoeyJo-JoJrShabadoo]

I remember seeing this this at the Tate Modern in London.

[@yajaira099023]

It makes me sad and at the same time scared

[@scaathreykr]

Looks cool.

[@echothebot]

Looks like a Boss Battle in a RPG

[@audiovirtual5111]

BRUTAL

[@TheTriumph41]

i got shocked

[@sammiralipi7051]

please someone could translate for portuguese what he said?

[@ettydavis]

👏👏👏

[@marcopolo9146]

How I feel today.

[@micheallouis4569]

this project cost .5 million

[@fisticuf]

That seems unlikely

[@tarajones2169]

@@fisticuf I don't know. The thing is massive! It takes up a whole room. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIvFdWScjZ57l5Y

[@whyiine]

why don't you just say 500 thousand

[@Galarantxa]

Wow

[@wednesdayaddams5798]

is it me or did the robot have Betty pop in her eyes in the background? but not in her pupils?

[@smile-ic6kk]

Yes, I saw it too

[@naudiahazzard4444]

his*

[@alolisa113]

What do you think he's counting?

[@presshum2006]

in an interview i read that hes counting a list of things that he wants to do to you/the audience

[@WhitneyDahlin]

@@presshum2006 thank you!

[@sx5490]

Maybe that’s why he’s chained up.

[@sofialorenzo1451]

Se siente como un niño mal educado. Pero un niño inocente al final de cuentas. He observado qué hay niños que hacen cosas crueles, pero solo porque es lo que aprendieron en sus hogares o entornos. Por eso creo que que varios factores pueden crear a un adulto deplorable. Siento a las cadenas como un castigo y un método preventivo a la vez: castigo por que parece que el niño ha hecho esas cosas antes, y preventivo para que no las vuelva a hacer.

[@babeonboard6]

I dont understand the number comments?

[@sucrette4301]

What is the whole list of things that the puppet says when it stops...?

[@ChaoszIsAGoddess7]

What I heard. 2. To k/ll you 3. To hold you 4. To bleed you 5. To touch you 6. To move you 7. To ice you 8. To put my teeth in you 9. To put my hand on you 10. To hand in your hair 11. Your leg over my shoulder 12. Your mouth full of coffee 13. I knew you 14. I k/lled you 15. You're blind 16. you're spoiled 17. To show you 18. To weigh you Spit Earth. 16. You lift you 17

[@user-cz1cd2rq7v]

А какой он был красивый

[@Mrmoai-rm3pg]

I'm scared now

[@user-cz4de7cv5t]

它眼球用的什么显示屏，怎么做到这样的曲面。

[@themanofteeth]

looks like something straight out of atomic heart *-*

[@Mattmatt13837n]

This is terrifying.

[@ajichiyomie-pipi]

SCPかホラーゲームに出てきそう

[@missbesla]

😢

[@intheplums]

Damn thats creepy

[@frickermints]

SPIT EARTH

[@caofixemasterplay8698]

Aqui esta o comentário brasileiro que vc procura

[@jeannebrislis]

1:09 Omggg I'm so happy for you congrats on comming out of the closet

[@melinaangelgallegos8290]

1:20-2:00 can u say me whats he says?

[@cupidsarrow00]

PLS 💀

[@melinaangelgallegos8290]

@@cupidsarrow00 ?

[@GoldKnightProduction]

He says "twelve" twice.

[@Breeadkurmbz]

Spit. Earth. *Gets fucking dragged across the air*

[@livingdolls971]

What the

[@acofa8988]

wish those people would stop talking

[@nou6938]

Agreed

[@squidsisterscallieandmarie5874]

Vengo de tiktok

[@Clarrisani]

Looking like it needs a repaint

[@premiumaccount4166]

Clarrisani ‍ its supposed to look like that

[@mattkirby1089]

That's the point. The boy's been worn down by abuse

[@linkonyx6]

No...its to represent

[@itz_blondie]

Why does it look like It’s a kid being traumatized?????!!!!!

[@contami9210]

Não adiantou nada kkkk

[@mishellcabrera520]

Creo que este es el único comentario en español que encontrarán pero porque le asen eso a ese pobre muñeco y tiene vida propia

[@RoccoDemar445]

No tiene vida propia weon xdd

[@mishellcabrera520]

@@RoccoDemar445 ja ja ja xd

[@sandenwolff7931]

Hi! This is a great video! Could you message me? I would love to ask you about it. Thank you! -K

[@premiumaccount4166]

SandenWolff 😂🤣👎👎👎👎

[@kathrinehoward3600]

That’s not how this app works

[@Kyouto_Clips]

@@kathrinehoward3600 it used to work 4 years ago

[@lastchanc3stars]

I believe this piece represents child abuse. The fiberglass puppet, during its first performance, was shiny and new and had fresh paint. Now, it is grimy and chipped from the dragging around and beatings it takes each day. The chains drag its loose body across the stage, hitting it against walls and having it fall to the floor. This loose marionette symbolizes the powerlessness abused children have against their abusers. Their abusers strip them of their innocence [paint] to hurt them. The monologue is especially distressing, coming from the point of view of the abuser hurting this child. As seen in- "-2. To kill you." "3. To hold you." "4. To believe you." "5. To touch you." "6. To move you." "7. To ask you." "8. To put my teeth in you." "9. To put my hand on you." "10. Two hands inside your hair." "11. Your leg over my shoulder." "12. Your mouth full of coffee." "12. I knew you." "13. I killed you." "14. You're blind." "15. You're spoiled." "16. To lift you." "17. To show you." "18. To lay you." The lack of a number one implies that the child just woke up, or came out of a daze when hearing this. "Spit. Earth." which concludes the speech before the puppet begins to be drug around is spoken by the child. It is a subtle to way to convey the child saying "I hate this place." Also, the lines from 8 to 12 imply physical abuse is not the only type of abuse this child suffers from. It implies the child is also suffering from s-xual abuse. The projections of dancing candies and the clips of cartoons in the puppet's eyes could represent dissociation, in which to try and metaphorically escape this abusive household, the child imagines good things and a whole fake world where they're in control; hence the puppet no longer being moved during the sequence. ~ _I am officially Socrates_

[@elizabethd6829]

1:11 alguien me dice la traducción

[@rosachirinosfernandez8302]

Yo tampoco se que dice

[@oh_oppsie1]

2 matarte 3 sostenerte 4 Sangrarte 5 tocarte

[@tayamukhina6468]

Бедная кукла🥲

[@paulauwu2738]

Alguien que hable español y me traduzca lo q dice xD?

[@normafigueroa6204]

Es una lista de cosas raras

[@tamarjara2281]

1: matarte 2:sangrarte 3:sostenerte 4:nose

[@mrpercival5130]

Son una lista de cosas bastante turbias que la marioneta quiere hacerle al espectador

[@wenas8374]

.....mejor no digo nada :,,c

[@mayacomis3901]

Cuspir terra

[@mroxyopia]

F.A.B!

[@brockenconsole8678]

Creepy

[@saravogt2944]

That is creepy

[@Yaneth_Hrdz]

Chucky?

[@LucaLooming]

I think is like a abusing family that hurt him and says its love

[@Beatles_fan297]

What

[@delia492]

So

[@PIRUGamer562]

Ñ

[@cap6158]

I dont get it 🥴

[@elizabethd6829]

1:14

[@oldman6426]

Fnaf

[@wenas8374]

No

[@drvxx1597]

I felt hate towards the kid for some reason

[@DS-oopa]

Fire the camera person. I would like to see the whole scene. 🙄

[@freyasimmons]

Satan?

[@theeclipseshow2432]

I do not like is :(

[@Sten1]

what is the point? Industrial crane dragging around a non-functional that can move his eyes robot? crap

[@ibisqo]

so true man, same thing for all those old canvases in museums with paint all over them. what are they good for?

[@hueginvieny7959]

Sorry don't get it and I'm never going to understand how people can be moved by a pointless machine and act like this has such a profound impact on their emotional being.

[@balakeboma__8706]

It’s about childhood abuse

[@balakeboma__8706]

It gets thrown around and it’s made of glass showing how at any moment it could break and

[@SarnaiViola]

It's called an artwork dummy

[@DakiaranyJackson]

Are you okay? Lol

[@intensestare5027]

@@DakiaranyJackson not everyone is gonna interprete something the same way if at all, personally i thought this was pretty funny. Especially when it was dragged around bc i dont see it as a person so i dont feel sad abt it

[@Layk35]

Pretentious

[@kaleighbea6869]

How so?? It’s supposed to represent child abuse

[@tri-angel]

@@kaleighbea6869 I'm not sure that was jordan wolfson's intent, but it definitely could represent that. He seems pretty clear on not disclosing good own interpretations

[@charliebear154]

Closed minded. Lol.

[@oldman6426]

Fnaf

[@mrpercival5130]

Do not put ideas to FNAF