Glitter in My Wounds
The result of a series of chance encounters, Glitter in My Wounds embraces accident and improvisation in the face of the restrictive categories that pervade art and life. The book is shaped around a series of portraits of the transgender activist and actress Gersande Spelsberg made by the artist and educator Adam Broomberg. Spelsberg sat for Broomberg and together they made 100 photographs, shot on 5âx4â negative and lit only using the sun and mirrors ââ the same distinctive lighting technique employed in Helmar Lerskiâs remarkable series âMetamorphosis Through Lightâ.
Spelsbergâs story of transitioning reflects on and questions the many toxic pre-existing conditions that shape contemporary gender roles. CAConradâs book (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals, serves as a roadmap for confronting identities that had previously felt fixed and immutable and in this collection Broomberg encountered the poem âGlitter in My Woundsâ, with its sparkling echoes of the portraits Broomberg and Spelsberg had made.
A prismatic reflection on identity and encounter formed in the meeting of three uncompromising artists, Glitter in My Wounds confronts rigid conventions with an iconoclastic combination of portraits and poetics.
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The result of a series of chance encounters, Glitter in My Wounds embraces accident and improvisation in the face of the restrictive categories that pervade art and life. The book is shaped around a series of portraits of the transgender activist and actress Gersande Spelsberg made by the artist and educator Adam Broomberg. Spelsberg sat for Broomberg and together they made 100 photographs, shot on 5âx4â negative and lit only using the sun and mirrors ââ the same distinctive lighting technique employed in Helmar Lerskiâs remarkable series âMetamorphosis Through Lightâ.
Spelsbergâs story of transitioning reflects on and questions the many toxic pre-existing conditions that shape contemporary gender roles. CAConradâs book (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals, serves as a roadmap for confronting identities that had previously felt fixed and immutable and in this collection Broomberg encountered the poem âGlitter in My Woundsâ, with its sparkling echoes of the portraits Broomberg and Spelsberg had made.
A prismatic reflection on identity and encounter formed in the meeting of three uncompromising artists, Glitter in My Wounds confronts rigid conventions with an iconoclastic combination of portraits and poetics.
