Siri Hayes and Kristian Haggblom
What:
Siri Hayes and Kristian Haggblom
Where:
Kings ARI, Level 1/171 Kings Street
When:
Wed-Sat Until 21st Jan
In the peak of the festive season when spirits are at their highest and love and joy abound, there is no better time to take a good hard look at death. Siri Hayes and Kristian Haggblom do just this in their latest show at Kings.
The feared subject of death is explored by Hayes through photographs of abandoned and run-down houses, stagnant amid the grey murk of suburbia. The absence of any inhabitants creates a sense of hopelessness and foreboding, constructed as the antithesis of a home.
Haggblom uses the forest in the foothills of Mount Fuji as the subject of his series Aokigahara Jukai. A place that is both invigorating and ominous and as popular for suicides as it is with day-trippers and mushroom pickers.
What links the two series, is the poignancy and sublime beauty so delicately captured in these spaces. Both Hayes and Haggblom manage to entwine us in the uncompromising reality of death, making it both an exploration and an end.
Medium: Photography
Drink: Bottle of red
Keywords: Death, Kings ARI, Photography
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