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