Grave Desires

The queer angle of funerary art

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The Great Skull Project

The Great Skull Project deals with skulls in culture, bringing together photography, poetry and peer-reviewed articles by leading authors in the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and the arts.

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Domus Ultima

A journey through living cemeteries and sleeping gardens around the world.

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Ortus Conclusus

A collection of 10 books in a luxury case containing the history and evolution of the garden; from the hanging gardens of Babylon to the skyline of NY.

The most beautiful private and public gardens of the world; from the Roman ortus conclusus, through the symbolist and manneristic gardens to the contemporary vertical yards.

Each volume portraits a different country or region (Italy, England, France, Mexico, Japan….), presenting its own distinctive style.

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Carrière: The 8th Letter

Jean-Claude Carrière is world known as one of the most brilliant and prolific script writers of the 20th Century.

His work as a writer also includes short stories and essays on very different subjects that go from philosophy and psychology to oral tradition, mysticism and science.

He has also produced hundreds of drawings and cartoons as well as artist books.

As a script-writer he worked with Forman, Buñuel, Tati, Schlendorf, among many others.

His scripts are considered movie classics. Just to mention some of the most famous ones: Belle de Jour, The Obscure Object of Desire, Viva María, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Cyrano de Bergerac and The Name of the Rose.

Published for the first time in this book, the 7 letters that Carrière wrote to her daughters -from the seven different cities that marked his life-, constitute a short autobiography as well as a moving and intimate testimony of the 20th Century.

The 8th letter is written from an imaginary place to his dead friends, which were some of the most influencing intellectuals, artists, actors, philosophers and scientists of his time.

Together with the letters, the book includes Carrière’s drawings, sketches,cartoons, souvenirs and personal photographs taken by well known international photographers.

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Tlahuican Paradise

During the pre-hispanic period, Cuernavaca was the site of the mythical Aztec Tamoanchan.

The Tlahuicas-natives of the area in pre-Columbian times, beleived their paradise was also located in this area.

In the first half of the 20th Century, Cuernavaca and its outskirts gathered an interesting community of actors, politicians, aristocrats, businessmen, artists, scientists, thinkers and refugees from all over the world, who found in this place their own secret paradise.

This book is divided in three main sections: In the first one, text and images

are intertwined in a flexible and ironic way, construed as a travel diary; the second includes a collection of interviews and portraits of some of the famous people who lived in Cuernavaca during the first decade of the 20th Century.

The last part includes historic unpublished photographs and documents, that necessarily lead the reader to a reflection about a “forgotten paradise”.

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Arcana

ARCANA is a limited edition art object, divided in two parts: one hand sawn book and 22 separate printed images, inside a japanese cedar wood box with silver inlays.

The text, written by Mireille Gerard, under a script write form, narrate the journey of  the protagonist Arcana, throughout  the symbolism of the 22 Arcanes Tarot cards.
The 22 black & white unpublished photographs by Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo, are an original interpretation of the 22 Major Tarot Arcanes.

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Mental Health Department

Approximately thirty years ago, as a result of the enforcement of the “Psychiatric Reform Law”, better known as the “Basaglia Law”, the Italian madhouses were definitively closed down.
The instruments used in chirurgical operations at such mental health centers, constitute the main object of each section of the exhibition. These instruments, mostly from the sixties, were found by the artist at the operation rooms of the few institutions that have been kept closed and untouched ever since.
Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) of the chirurgical instruments are projected over the walls of the spyral structure of the “Artifacts” installation -built as a container of organs-. At it’s center, a human brain in formaldehide stands lit in the dark.
The series of photographs, shot at the desolate spaces of the old mental health institutions, evoke the memory of its former occupants; while the X rays of the instruments, mounted on light boxes, give birth to the process of expansion of memory.
The sound installation blends with the resonance of the wind while passing through the orifices of an old medieval ruin, and the caw of birds that nest in this hollow building.
These modern medical techniches applied to steady objects, transported to the artistic field, establish a counterpoint dialogue with the pencil drawings of Eva Gerd, transforming the instruments in post-organic bodies in continuous evolution.

Each one of the rescued objects, coated, sutured and embalmed rest in a larval state, lying on black satin pillows. With such burial in full sight, the ritual of the metamorphosis of the objects comes to its conclusion, but also the artists’ one, who -incorporated to their own work-, participate in the Platonic theory of the ideas and the doctrine of the shapes, where existence is divided in two spheres: the “intelligible” of the perfect ideas and shapes, eternal and undivisible; and the “sensible”, where the concrete and known objects belong.

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