No Breath of Sound / 2015
‘No Breath of Sound’ is a collaboration with Martin Bladh. Following ‘Coup de grâce’ and ‘To Putrefaction’, this work completes a trilogy exploring the artists' personal obsession with beauty and death.
Using the marbled geological formations of South England’s coast, these photographs transmute Bladh’s naked body into some posthuman landscape, making it the centre and the sole protagonist in a static theatre of death. Each photograph corresponds with a piece of text carefully chosen and juxtaposed by Bladh. The History of Drowning is a fragmented, romantic ode which combines the deaths of Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader with Ludwig ll of Bavaria, the executions of the early Christian martyrs with the American Smiley Face Murders, and the disaster victims of Kaho Lak with the suicide lovers leap from the Yangtze River Bridge in China.
Published by Infinity Land Press in 2016 as a limited edition box set, the release includes 16 mounted photographs with corresponding texts.
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Related projects
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To Putrefaction / 2013
The second part of a trilogy which explores the artists' personal obsession with beauty and death.
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The Torture of the 100 Pieces / 2012–2020
Series of macro-photographs / 'woundscapes', created in collaboration with artist Martin Bladh
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The Island of Death / 2012
Series of video backdrops created for Martin Bladh's stage performance, The Island of Death