Rob and Nick Carter’s art is a memento mori with a twist, because what appears initially as a painted panel in a wooden frame (of the kind favoured by Dutch 17th-C
masters), upon sustained looking reveals a screen playing a looped animated image of a painted frog breathing its last and slowly decomposing before our eyes. An updated symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death for our digital age. Read more about Transforming Vanitas Painting, in my BCS article this month.
