A Kiss before Dying*


TCB Exhibition with Rebecca Adams, July 2009.



Install shot. Rebecca Adams video Pucker Up, 2009. Duration: 26 min 13 sec (Video performance played at 50% speed)


Untitled (Closer), 2009. PVA, Single Channel DVD. 1 minute loop




Untitled (Closer), 2009. Single Channel DVD. 1 minute loop
Video Still


With Rebecca Adams' 'Vampiric Motives' neon work.




Still from Untitled (Deb and Doorway), 2009. Single Channel DVD. 1 minute loop.



A Kiss Before Dying aimed to create a visual dialectic that utilised stereotypical romance narratives from popular culture to engage with ideas about the romanticisation/eroticisation of death within popular culture through film and music, narcissism, vanity, love, eternity and cycles of consumption.

See Catalogue Texts page Exhibition Text by Tamsin Green

Centre for Contemporary Photography


I'd never seen or heard anything so clearly made for me
2009
Digital Video, 1  minute loop