‘The drill scene was dead. They’d locked everyone up’: RIP Germain on his shocking coffin installation
In a room stinking of industrial bleach and cooled to the temperature of a morgue, the artist explores pop culture’s voracious appetite for violence – by trapping the viewer in front of 101 hours of drill videos‘A generation has been completely wiped out,” says Luton-born artist RIP Germain. He’s talking about the UK drill scene, a subject he explores in his latest exhibition. In an image used to publicise the show, we see the faces of 42 rappers, all of them in prison.“In autumn last year, there was literally no one,” he says. “The scene was actually dead, everyone was locked up.” Continue reading...
In a room stinking of industrial bleach and cooled to the temperature of a morgue, the artist explores pop culture’s voracious appetite for violence – by trapping the viewer in front of 101 hours of drill videos
‘A generation has been completely wiped out,” says Luton-born artist RIP Germain. He’s talking about the UK drill scene, a subject he explores in his latest exhibition. In an image used to publicise the show, we see the faces of 42 rappers, all of them in prison.
“In autumn last year, there was literally no one,” he says. “The scene was actually dead, everyone was locked up.” Continue reading...
