Artaud 1937 Apocalypse / 2018

After publishing a manifesto prophecy about the catastrophic immediate future entitled The New Revelations of Being, Antonin Artaud abruptly left Paris and travelled to the isolated island of Inishmore off Ireland's western coast, then to Galway, and finally to Dublin. During that journey on which he accumulated signs of the forthcoming apocalypse, Artaud’s mental health deteriorated. He was finally arrested and deported back to France. On his return, he spent nine years in lunatic asylums, including the entire span of the Second World War.  

These black-and-white landscape photographs document the barren and hostile landscape of Inishmore, Aran Islands in Galway Bay which became the backdrop to Artaud’s apocalyptic journey in 1937.

Artaud 1937 Apocalypse - Letters from Ireland by Antonin Artaud, were edited and translated by Stephen Barber and published by Infinity Land Press in 2018.