DAVID AUSTEN : END OF LOVE

11 Dec 2010-20 Feb 2011

Overview

Modern Art Oxford presents End of Love, the latest in a series of films by artist David Austen. End of Love is ‘a musical without music, performed at the end of the world’. The location is the stage of a London theatre where there is no audience. We meet twelve characters that all seem lost, hurt, broken – an old moon, lovers on the run, a love-torn dandy begging to be loved, a hurt and furious Cyclops. They are marginal figures, outsiders – all of them homeless, travelers or wanderers and present themselves to us, vulnerable, exposed and honest. They may sometimes seem brutal, but like the human figures in Austen’s drawings, participating in an encyclopedia of sex and violence, they are also fragile, childlike and tenderly depicted in their nakedness.