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Still Life (After Goya)

Still Life (After Goya) - Day 1

Still Life (After Goya) - Day 1

Still Life (After Goya) - Day 5

Still Life (After Goya) - Day 5

Still Life (After Goya) - Day 8

Still Life (After Goya) - Day 8

Still Life (After Goya) - Day 12

Still Life (After Goya) - Day 12

Still Life (After Goya) - Day 37

Still Life (After Goya) - Day 37

This series of photographs draws on the Western tradition of still life (nature morte and vanitas) paintings. It specifically references Goya’s A Still Life of Dead Hares (1812), which was painted during the Napoleonic occupation of Spain, a period for him of death and mourning. Adopting a forensic approach, the series document in acute detail the main stages of decomposition over the passage of time, and takes ‘nature morte’ to its logical conclusion.