bruce nauman

HUMAN NATURE

In Human Nature / Life Death (1983), American conceptual artist Bruce Nauman turns language into neon light and the peace sign into a flashing diagram of human contradiction. Human, animal, and nature collide at its center; life and death, love and hate, pleasure and pain pulse around them. Peace is not serenity, but the fragile tension holding opposing forces together. — PURPLE

Bruce Nauman, Human Nature / Life Death, 1983, copyright Bruce Nauman, ADAGP, Paris, 2026, artists rights society (ars), New York