IJEN, LONDON
7 MIN S16 COLOUR 16:92022
A post-apocalyptic landscape of rocks and toxic fumes; devoid of human presence but not of life. On the soundtrack, we hear Herbert Read’s reading of his poem The Autumn of the World which contemplates a devastated world of chaos and decay, “blood-flecked clouds” and “vermilioned vastness”. A contemporary of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Read served in the western front during the First World War – an experience that would shape and haunt his writing. 
Installed at Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2022
