Artist’s video depicts practice run in which piece is entirely destroyed, alongside words ‘In rehearsals it worked every time …’
Banksy has posted a video to his website in which he implies the shredding of his million-pound artwork Girl with Balloon at a Sotheby’s auction in London was supposed to have been complete.
In the video posted on Tuesday entitled Shred the Love (the director’s cut), Banksy shows himself constructing the shredding mechanism inside a frame. It then cuts to the auction room and the moment of partial destruction. At the end, the video notes: “In rehearsals it worked every time …” as it shows the piece going the whole way through the shredding machine.
