Martin Bladh

A short collection of projects crafted by Martin Bladh, featuring Exhibit A, Exhibit B, and his three-part series of "Talk Shows."

Filmed in a seedy apartment with VHS camera, Martin Bladh and Karolina Urbaniak’s 55 minute feature starring Joseph Simpson-Bushell is a disturbing exploration of the dissociative mind. The still controversial 'multiple personality disorder' is used as a torturous means to unfold one man’s personal apocalypse. Triggered by the shocking video diaries of the ‘Bjork Stalker’ Ricardo Lopez, Gasper tells the story of a man split into five different personalities and their complex relationship to each other.

A piece based on the artist’s intimate obsession with the serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Over the last fifteen years Bladh has investigated the uncanny likeness in Nilsen’s romantic fantasy world to that of his own, and by using the killer as a persona – a Hyde Double – aimed to uncover new depths and unlock unknown extremes within himself.

Experimental filmmaking in its styling, the short video juxtaposes visual cut ups of various disturbing scenes being acted out (…Martin Bladh and an accomplice in a pig mask). These images play out seemingly in response to an audio collage of interview dialogue which has been collated and contributed by Peter Sotos.

Martin Bladh's harsh journey through the interior of his own mouth.

Matt 5:29-30 is a video installation piece which also involves damaged polaroids and drawings.