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Kiss Me Deadly: The Royal Automobile Club, London

Past exhibition
19 August - 29 September 2013
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Kiss Me Deadly, The Royal Automobile Club, London

“Get me to that bus stop and forget you ever saw me. If we don't make it to the bus stop... If we don't, remember me.”   Kiss Me Deadly, dir. Robert Aldrich, 1955 

 

Rooted in a queasy mixture of pulp novels and German expressionist cinematography, film noir was the moment when Hollywood raised the thriller from joyful trash to fine art. Above all these were films about light and darkness: neon reflected in rain-slicked pavements; cigarette smoke caught in a sodium glare; impenetrable mysteries and blinding revelations. In Kiss Me Deadly, four artists who studied together at the Royal Academy Schools each build on a theme from film noir. Sinta Tantra walks that tightrope between pop and formalism; Liane Lang’s overripe photography alludes to a civilisation corrupted; Jessica Holmes paints a post-human abstraction of the urban; and Veronica Smirnoff considers a world filled with mysterious signs and symbols.

 

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