CURRENT PROJECT
Pictures That Kill: a 40-year retrospective of Charles Gatewood
3rd October to 24th October 2008 -- London EC2
In October À Rebours presents Pictures That Kill, a forty-year retrospective of the photography of Charles Gatewood. Described as 'the anthropology of the forbidden', Gatewood's work has never previously been exhibited in the UK.
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Are there still areas of the behavioral map marked UNKNOWN? If so, book my passage at once, for it is on these mysteriously familiar journeys that I feel most alive. In these dark worlds I sense no limits. In these forbidden acts I taste the infinite. Charles Gatewood |
This is Gatewood’s first visit to London since 1973. On his last visit, he met and collaborated with the infamous William S. Burroughs, who wrote the text for his book Sidetripping. Gatewood's mission was becoming clear at the time: to catalogue and record the darker sides of western culture.
Since then he has delved into the depths of our collective psyche, photographing moments in history uncatalogued by more conventional photography, and gaining access to worlds that many of us would deny.
This exhibition is a unique opportunity to see the full breadth of Gatewood's work, including rare images from the Wall Street collection and the London visit with Burroughs and Brion Gysin.
Alongside the exhibition À Rebours and Switch are producing a series of events around the artist's work. The programme will include Performances that Kill, an evening of live interventions in the gallery space.
