Rachel Marsh: Poems inspired by Angelo Madsen Minax: A Crisis of Human Contact
Angelo Madsen Minax: A Crisis Of Human Contact, 2023, Installation view, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea. Photography: Rob Harris
Rachel Marsh, Writer and Gallery Assistant at DLWP, has written three poems in response to Angelo Madsen Minax: A Crisis of Human Contact, which is on show at the Pavilion until 21 May. Read them here:
both the wound and the remedy
exist together side by side
in unique types of chemistry
fetishes, secrets, complexities.
nobody needs to know
what we say
or what we do
(i know you have your secrets too)
dematerialise
from yourself
your life
your pain
materialise
when you can love
and learn to be
yourself again
consequence as topography
white silvery lines
others a jagged red
a result, perhaps
of things unsaid.
some scars are displayed,
others hide them well
underneath long sleeves
in hot summer spells.
i guess it depends
on how they were formed,
for pleasure? for pain?
or to cancel out the horrors
that they never want
to think about
or experience
again
Posted by Luke on Monday 17 April 2023