"I use a lot of repetition. And it becomes a filmic way of talking because as you put the same image after the other, even though it’s the exact identical image, everyone sees something changing from one image to the next."
"The Golden Death" from "The Last Days of Pompeii" (2001)
"The Golden Death" from "The Last Days of Pompeii," 2001
Chromogenic print, 58 5/8 x 46 5/8 inches
Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Chromogenic print, 58 5/8 x 46 5/8 inches
Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
"We finished this piece two-and-half weeks before 9/11...So the relationships between America as this great colonial power and Rome- one of the early, great colonial powers- were extremely clear to me."
- Eleanor Antin



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