Topography of the Void
Series of photographs taken during a research trip to Inishmore, Ireland, following the steps of French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theatre and the European avant-garde, Antonin Artaud. In later summer 1937 Artaud abruptly left Paris and travelled to Aran Islands, where he accumulated signs of his forthcoming apocalypse and planned his own role in it as 'THE REVEALED ONE'. Deported from Ireland after six weeks, Artaud spent nine years in lunatic asylums, including the entire span of the Second World War. Selected photographs from ' Topography of the Void' were used to illustrate ' Artaud 1937 Apocalypse' (Infinity Land Press 2018), a book that collects all of Artaud's letters from this extraordinary journey, writings that capture a moment of accumulating disintegration and tenacious creativity in his work.