Miles Greenberg 'Étude pour Sébastien' (2023)

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Étude pour Sébastien (2023) was a performance commissioned by the Musée du Louvre — For five and a half hours, the artist embodied Saint Sebastian in the Cour Marly, documented by a film crew, his body painted black head to toe with four silver arrows pierced through his skin. Photographed by Vidar Logi.

“I performed about five hours as Saint Sebastian. Starting completely immobile, I very, very slowly would shift into every pose of his I knew from every painting, sculpture and etching in my memory. I felt the arrows like beams of light shooting through my body while I felt my heart rate slow in the freezing cold empty stone room. I became a stone, too.” - Miles Greenberg

Private Property has collaborated with Miles Greenberg to release a limited edition of 50 signed prints at a special price of £120.00. This is part of Private Property’s Young Collectors Initiative, working with artists to make purchasing photography accessible.

Orders will be shipped starting October 9th, 2026.

About Miles Greenberg

Miles Greenberg (b. 1997) is a Canadian performance artist and sculptor. His work consists of large-scale, sensorially immersive and site-specific environments revolving around the physical body in space. These installations are activated with often extreme durational performances that invoke the body as sculptural material, with the goal of making visible the poetics of the human form; particularly through the lens of the African diaspora. His performances are captured in real-time before the audience to generate later video works and sculptures. Rigorous and ritualistic in its methodology, Greenberg’s universe relies on slowness and the decay of form to heighten the audience’s sensitivities. The result is something akin to a ritual space that invites both the performer and the audience to navigate, decipher and honour the emotions, often beyond language, that reside and resonate in the body.