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Robyn Nesbitt

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Robyn Nesbitt (b.1984) currently works and lives in Johannesburg.
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Pretend to sleep, 2010. Video Installation

James McCarthy in Death Anxiety (1980) writes about the child’s first experience of death when viewing a corpse as the understanding “that death is a state of permanent immobility with shut, sightless eyes, a state of profound sleep or both” (McCarthy 1980:17). In the work Pretend to Sleep I asked my grandmother to lie down on the bed and pretend to sleep. I watched her while she lay still and ‘asleep’.

Created February 3, 2010
Posted February 9, 2011
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Pretend to sleep, 2010

by Robyn Nesbitt

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

$727.00

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Multi-Screen
Realism

116.9 x 165.4 x 0.4 in
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More by Robyn Nesbitt

Still life with parrot, 2009

Flowers for Cynthia, 2009

Still life with flowers, 2009

Pretend to sleep, 2010 (bed)

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Family Portrait

In the Garden (Parrot)

In the Garden (Dog)

In the Garden (Christmas tree)