
Juliet Darling, Mona Lisa 2015 (still), video, 6 minutes, 13 seconds, courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley Gallery.

Juliet Darling, Mona Lisa 2015 (still), video, 6 minutes, 13 seconds, courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley Gallery.

Juliet Darling, Mona Lisa 2015 (still), video, 6 minutes, 13 seconds, courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley Gallery.

Juliet Darling, Mona Lisa 2015 (still), video, 6 minutes, 13 seconds, courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley Gallery.

Juliet Darling, Mona Lisa 2015 (still), video, 6 minutes, 13 seconds, courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley Gallery.
Mona Lisa is a video artwork about waiting.
It looks at the intrinsic relationship between waiting and looking at a work of art; a waiting to receive, a waiting in order to let the work emerge on its own terms.
We are not watching killing time, boredom, passing time; we are witnessing a decision, a commitment, a simple humble act.
In the scrum of seething bodies busily filming the painting or themselves with their cameras, we catch a glimpse of a person focused and absorbed, who stands, in a sense, unprotected, and who perhaps is in a state not dissimilar to La Gioconda herself. Leonardo's highest aim, he said, was to ‘depict the state of man's soul’. Not a momentary emotional state but man's inner life. When we watch these people who have made a choice to wait, we too can feel that they are in contact with their souls.
Juliet Darling is represented by Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney.

Juliet Darling, Mona Lisa 2015 (still), video, 6 minutes, 13 seconds, courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley Gallery.
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