Bill Viola

born 1951

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Artworks

Five glowing screens in a row on a dark gallery wall, each showing the same small room in different light, where a lone woman stretches, sits, works by lamplight, lights candles and sleeps

Catherine’s Room

Four Hands

Three video screens side by side in darkness: a newborn baby's face at left, a clothed man suspended underwater amid blue bubbles in the centre, and an elderly woman's face resting on a pillow near death at right.

Nantes Triptych

Video still of a clothed figure plunging into deep water, upside down with legs raised, wrapped in a burst of pale blue bubbles against surrounding blackness

Five Angels for the Millennium

Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water)

The Messenger

Mary

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Bill Viola: Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water)

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Bill Viola: Tiny Deaths at Tate Modern

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Bill Viola: Venice Biennale 2007

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