"I use a lot of repetition. And it becomes a filmic way of talking because as you put the same image after the other, even though it’s the exact identical image, everyone sees something changing from one image to the next."
"The Dead: Belphegor" (2004)
"The Dead: Belphegor," 2004
Ink and graphite on Denril, 54 x 36 inches
Photo by Oren Slor, © Matthew Ritchie
Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Ink and graphite on Denril, 54 x 36 inches
Photo by Oren Slor, © Matthew Ritchie
Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
"'The Dead' are sort of deformed and mutated or a specific set of characteristics. There are seven of them, and they match the seven parts of the viral life-cycle. Each one fulfills a specific sort of mission, and that’s why they have these kinds of ritual poses, which are based on the torments of the damned from Greek mythology. They’re drawn out of a classical idea of a cycle of perpetual punishment."
- Matthew Ritchie
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