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The
monument marking the grave of Oscar Wilde is the recipient
of many lip motifs, rendered in lipstick by devotees kissing
the stone. The five sets of lips in the work adjacent were
recorded on Monday 10th of November 2008, 11.42am
in the Cimetiere Du Pere Lachaise Paris.
They document the debt felt to Wilde's art ( the silent
voices) by their authors; placed into the world for an
audience with humanity. Confronted with mortality viewers hear
their own silent voices contemplating the complex
relationships between our adulation of greatness, celebrity,
and feelings of longing, hope and despair. These intense
feelings when articulated are diminished; the lips enable us
to better hear the ‘silent voices’ within. |
