Devin Horan

From the slaughter bench to blessedness – human sacrifice and the meaning of the earth – the congested planet is moaning, “boxes all over the world are moaning” – But – have you heard – the good news?

An isolated community near the Latvia-Russia border. A space of ambiguity, a psycho-geography, an absence of personal histories.

A study of the landscape and of the traces left by time and man in the mountainous areas of northern Tuscany, between the Apennines and the Apuan Alps, following the rhythm of the seasons, the movements of light and stages of transformation of matter.

Dark north. Beneath an expanse of sky, a night of flesh absorbed in fever.

Grodek: such is the name of one of the first mass slaughters to have occurred in the First World War, precisely in September 1914, between the Russian and Austro- Hungarian armies

Nervegas, assassins, christneedles, malarial nightmare non-sense of Akra... subterranean surreal sluice-pit spirit of absurd Akra, primitive posthuman panorama of Akra... soft brain on concrete in the blank face of thoughts, in the silence of horror in Akra...