Ayrton Senna Da Silva

Ayrton Senna Da Silva (1996) copyright artist(s) and courtesy argos

Artist(s)

Year

1996

Duration

00:44:12

Original format

U-Matic SP

Color

col.

Languages

Spoken:
English UK

Availability

In collection
Not in distribution

The television footage of racing driver Ayrton Senna’s fatal crash on May 1st 1994 during the Grand Prix of San Marino serves for a rigid analysis of the phenomenon Senna while a text runs across the screen, displaying Senna’s biography through a technical description of his racing career. A juxtaposition between the poetic delayed images and the speeding text forces one to make a choice between reading and watching. Exposed to a similar amount of data we start to question thoroughly the ways in which we perceive.