This is Marc Quinn’s most famous piece of work, Self, made using 4.5 litres of his own blood, which was slowly extracted from his body over a period of five months and frozen in a cast of his face. Quinn has been making these roughly every five years since 1991, and each one must be maintained carefully in fridges. The fragility of the media means exhibiting is difficult - the head has to be placed into a glass case which is chilled from underneath. It reminds the audience of the fragility of existence and the precise conditions necessary for the flourishing of life
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Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois
Steilneset: Witch Trial Memorial
…honors the victims of 17th-century witch trials in Vardø, above the Arctic Circle in Norway’s northeastern reaches. The haunting site is illuminated by the midnight sun and narrated by the calls of seabirds.
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dominic wilcox: waiting room
I was shown around the building, all rooms were empty apart from one remaining locked office that was abandoned with all its contents intact. I thought that it was as if the room was waiting to die and I thought to ease its transition from this world. My thought for the office was to leave it intact but to remove the color from every aspect in the room (via white paint) thereby taking a layer of reality and connection to our world as it moves closer to its imminent death.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Probably the most badass photo series ever.
Long-exposure shots of convicted & executed Joseph Paul Jernigan’s cross-sectioned body that he had consented to donation to medical research.
Concept & Art Direction: Croix Gagnon
Photography: Frank Schott
Post Production: Alex Katz/BlinklabProceeds from the prints go to Amnesty International.
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Erlenbach Cemetery Building
a project by AFGH
Erlenbach, Switzerland, Completed 2010
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The ghosts won’t starve, but we will perish.
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