Neil Hamon

Neil Hammon creates photography, prints, and sculptures that contemplate death, dying, and loss. For example, each of his suicide self-portraits presents multiple viewpoints of the event, of which the artist is both the subject and documentarian. The works recall iconic images, including The Death of Chatterton (1856) by Henry Wallis and Weegee's gritty shots of crime scenes and car-crash victims, as well as the uncanny domestic settings, jump-cuts, and sharp camera angles of Alfred Hitchcock's films. The content of these fantasies reveals the artist's irresistible morbid fascination with anticipating his own death, while their highly constructed compositions hold the grim realities of death at bay.

He has had solo exhibitions at Galeria Leme in São Paulo, Galeria Fucares in Madrid, and Galeria Blanca Soto in Madrid. His work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, Kunstmuseum Bern, and National Gallery Of Australia in Camberra.

Courtesy of Zabludowicz Collection