Heartbeat/Armpit
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Heartbeat/Armpit

Heartbeat/Armpit (2003) is a looped digital video just under two and a half minutes long and with no sound, a rare format in Tillmans’s artistic world. At first glance, this piece with its stringent composition and seeming calm seems to resemble a photograph. What we see is a cropped section of an angled overhead shot of a young man lying bare chested on a carpet.On closer inspection minimal movements can be discerned within this harmonious composition. These minute movements attest to the fact that he is alive: we intuit his breath and heartbeat from the fact that his chest rises and falls gently, and the artery in his neck pulsates.

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Overview

Release Date
Jan 1, 2003
Original Title
Heartbeat/Armpit
Runtime
3 minutes
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Language
en
Production Companies
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