In ‘A Thousand Years’, a decaying cow’s head is presented beneath the fly-killer. ![]() ![]() The corpses of the flies inside the vitrine accumulate whilst the works are on exhibition. In both works, the vitrine is split in half by a glass wall: a hole in this partition allows newly hatched flies from a box reminiscent of a die in one half, to fly into the other where an Insect-O-Cutor hangs. ‘A Thousand Years’ is acknowledged by the artist to be one of the most important of his career. ![]() ‘A Thousand Years’ and ‘ A Hundred Years’ were first exhibited at the warehouse show ‘ Gambler’, in 1990. “It’s as if the artist is the animal and the painting is the record of the artist’s tracks through space and time … I did not want just a record, but rather the actual movement.”
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