BOCA DO INFERNO
2014
Solo exhibition at
Konstfrämjandet, Konsthall K, Karlstad.
Photo documentation by
LealVeileby
"I cannot live without you. The other 'Boca do Inferno' will get me - it will not be as hot as yours!"
The year is 1930 and the world press is ablaze with reports about the suicide of english occultist Aleister Crowley, ”the wickedest man in the world”, as his suicide note has been found at a chasm nicknamed Boca do Inferno (The Mouth of Hell), located at the seaside of the Portuguese city of Cascais. Tensions rise even higher when the Portuguese writer and mystic Fernando Pessoa, only days after having meet Crowley for a game of chess and a deep discussion on matters both trivial and profane, describes in on of Lisbon's local newspapers how he the evening after the ill-fated day had seen Crowley's ghost
O Beijo (The Kiss), 2014-17, loop. One wave crushing on to, and receding, from the rock formation known as Boca do Inferno, ad eternum. 9 seconds, looped, from "A sea cave near Lisbon" (1896, Henry Short).
Passatempos (Pastimes)
