photo by David Tolley 
photo by David Tolley 
photo by David Tolley 
photo by David Tolley 
photo by David Tolley 
photo by David Tolley | I'd Rather Go Blind (2011) |
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Saturday 26 November, 7pm Modern Art Oxford This work was devised for the upper gallery of the Museum of Modern Art. It was hung as a photographic exhibition but, during the performance, the images were literally washed away, becoming more and more painterly and finally leaving merely a frame around an emptiness. I asked the musician Chris Gladwin to work on a recorded version of the song I’d Rather Go Blind sung by Etta James in a similarly disintegrating way; a laundered, scrubbed song, forming its own whirls and emptiness. As I washed the photographs, I improvised with the scoured voice of Etta James. I'd Rather Go Blind was part of SOLO curated by Brian Catling. |
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