The fruits’ rotting is presented for less than four minutes. A layer of mould begins to appear in various places, the fruits shrivel, blacken, and collapse in on themselves; at the peak, they ferment in their juices, and small flies begin to speckle them. The work reconstructs, in perceptible fast motion, the routine processes of nature and time constantly evolving around us, processes which are not perceived in their full intensity in real time.

Sam Taylor-Wood (1967) was born in England. Lives and works in London.

Courtesy of Freda and Izak Uziyel and White Cube Gallery, London

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