Terence Koh

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Pictures of GOD, a performance at GALERIE DE PURY & LUXEMBOURG, Zürich, June 2007

Terence Koh’s Life Masks: Two artists talking in a pitch-black room, share some secrets about art, God, Hermès, jellyfish, Michael Jackson, penetration, perfection…

interview MAURIZIO CATTELAN
photography HEDI SLIMANE
introduction JEFF RIAN

 

Death is art’s most natural subject. It fulfills the role of both succubus and incubus, guides the passions and neuroses of artists, and influences their behavior and dress. The worlds of art are fraught with death, and in those worlds, it is treated with the care and control of clockmakers. For many artists, a dandy’s fetishistic obsession imbues the leitmotif of death in a camouflage of carefully construed presentations and projections.

Terence Koh’s photographs, performances, and presentations are infused with gothic sensitivity and emblematic matter. Koh, who was born in Beijing, but raised in Vancouver, once published amateur…