Inside The Atrocity Exhibition (The Place is (Always) Here
FACES
Like Warholian Turin Shrouds (below Ivory Coast guru heddle pulley used in weaving in Warhol’s collection)
Screaming Like Bacon, Screaming Like Freud
Out of Print
Out of Print
Out of Print
Keith Piper was here though
to watch the way the eyes (Exhibition I plurals)
rolled over his work
Keith Piper
who’d fought with the idea
the feeling
Above: Detail from Black Assassin Saints (you can’t print on demand from the Sheffield Gallery shop as you can with other works)
the constraints
and powerfully placed the work
as if it was already there
as if
It wasn’t absurd
to be documenting
such atrocity
within the sado masochistic
complex of oppression
as if he wasn’t just having a laugh
at his oppression
because it really matters now
when we look at Andy Warhol
Look at Bacon, Look at Freud
Dead billion air makers
and Keith Piper is still here
Artistic conjurer
Occasionally coming up
to breathe
Poem copyright Paula Anne Sharratt 2017
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