.River Dillon
Bloody Men
River Dillon presents portraits he made with blood.
The first were done around 1998 in New York with a Japanese model playing Brooklyn's Saint, a mix between Saint Sebastian and the character played by Matt Dillon in the Saint of Manhattan. They were followed by pictures of men bleeding, tears of blood and bloody wounds, made with pink and red seaweed, sometimes with fake and real blood, or created with photos of bodies repainted with red paint or beet juice. The artist also stages fake murder scenes, like the dead Mathias with a bloody neck and a lyng hatchet near him. Crime scenes of the beautiful models we desire but cannot have. Resolving this frustration with a picture when a serial killer would release it with a murder.
Dillon also makes bloody superpositions.
He superimposes faces with pictures of blood stains. The blood progressively gets dry and dark red, nearly black. The face behind the blood looks more and more shriveled, hurt, injured.
When the photographer creates Sharkmen, superimposing sharks, their mouth full of blood, with portraits of hansome guys, he tries to show our bestiality and our cruelty.
Like an octopus, another model, Vincent, opens his sea anemone red lips. His mouth, like a pussy, origin of the world, can give life, love or the kiss of death. These creatures of the Sea, Mermen, lure and seduce sailors with their fatal beauty.
Pictures of the performance Spikemen show a hard battle in a bed between two bloody men wearing metallic spikes bracelets, the way homosexual partners transform sometimes into ennemies.
The artist sheds blood to show the wounds of a desperate passion, the sad end of an ex-love story, the illness of a blood polluted by aids with the visual shocking contrast between a young skin and the magnificient blood-red color.
Lapidaction
Dillon will also present a performance. One after the other 20 persons will throw stones on a previously filmed naked man projected on the soil. The guy begins to bleed and seems to die like in Iranian gay's lapidations.
River Dillon was born in 1968. He lives in Paris. He already exhibited Dornenmänner in Berlin in the Schwules Museum in 2006 for Europäischer Monat der Fotografie and ARTFRANCEBERLIN.
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Bloody men
Opening 12 Oktober 7 to 11pm
Open Space Festival of Free Arts
Fasslagerhalle. Haus A
Saarbrückerstr.24
10405 Berlin
U Bahn 2 Senefelder Platz
12-28 October 2007
info
http://www.openspace32.de
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