Stopbathreviews at the Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
- Toby Blackman
- Mar 10, 2016
- 1 min read
Recently I took a trip to see the work of an artist who I admire greatly. Edgar Matins collaborated with Jordan Baseman to create an exhibition named Flat Death, a showcase of work that reveals how we represent death.
The technical brilliance of Martin’s work has always astounded me, always using colour 4x5 and 10x8 negatives, Martin’s images have this walk in quality. Printed large you can feel like you are in that space, the lines are perfectly straight and the colours are true to life. The wonder comes with what Martins photographs, choosing spaces and objects that may be considered bizarre.
As written in my Stopbathreviews blog the image that caught my eye was a departure from Martin’s normal flow of work. This was a 10x8 colour negative that had been firstly exposed to a murder scene, then taken out of the film holder and exposed to natural light. The end result just looks like a negative that has been exposed to light outside a camera.
The exhibition combined with Baseman’s work, which was slide projectors showing images of funerals, took you on this thought process of making you understand for yourself how death can be seen, not in a morbid way but in a sense of understanding.
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