Oliver Payne and Nick Relph, Mixtape, 2002, film still.
In a sequence of British artists Oliver Payne and Nick Relph’s video Mixtape, you can see a teenager in rainbow-coloured trousers leaning against a building, walking a rhinestone-studded turtle on a leash. This must be the 21st-century version of Des Esseintes’s eccentric creation…
October 10, 2007 at 9:34 pm
A rebour is one of my favorite books, and the jewelled tortoise is the screensaver whenever my mind goes idle. Another bit I like is when Des Esseintes hires a prostitute to put on a puppet show with his statue of the Sphinx.
Nice!