Jan Philipzen, Ravedeath Convention / Special Edition sculpture posthumous

posthumous

uncanny and touches the strangeness in ordinary things

The photographer cuts

De dood is het grote onbekende in ons leven

But more and more Masai start to live in towns and buy their first Nikes and put mobile phones in their stretched ears

Jan Philipzen, Ravedeath Convention / Special Edition sculpture posthumousStarted as a visual diary, Ravedeath Convention soon grew into a hybrid of autobiography and fiction. While love, joy and friendship are explored, violence and excess come about too, often captured only as traces and symptoms. A collision of different, occasionally mismatched, cultural symbols stresses the all embracing blend of subcultres as a fundamental feature of our times. The first pictures taken at age thirteen, this series of black and white