Moments Like This Never Last
Moments Like This Never Last is a two-part chromogenic print by American artist Dan Colen that captures his characteristic interplay between ephemeral experience and material permanence. The work reflects Colen's ongoing exploration of fleeting moments, youth culture, and the bittersweet tension between desire and loss. The diptych format reinforces the work's thematic fragmentation, suggesting that even the act of looking is divided, incomplete, and subject to the passage of time.
- Medium
- chromogenic print, in 2 parts
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
September 19, 2013
Artists in conversation
Richard Prince
American · b. 1949
Prince similarly works with chromogenic photography and appropriation to explore youth culture, desire, and the fleeting nature of American experience, often presenting images in series that feel fragmented and conceptually loaded.
Wolfgang Tillmans
German · b. 1968
Tillmans creates chromogenic photographic works that capture ephemeral moments of youth culture with a melancholic undercurrent, sharing Colen's interest in impermanence and the bittersweet tension between presence and loss.
Ed Ruscha
American · b. 1937
Ruscha's text based conceptual works share a deep affinity with this piece's blending of language and visual imagery to evoke longing and temporal fragmentation within a distinctly American cultural context.
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