Japanese Ghost Stories - Lafcadio Hearn exhibitions With hands-on treatment from the

With hands-on treatment from the artist herself from layout to design

which are reproduced as scans in order to convey the variety of the documents and to give a sense of archival immersion

They can be thumbed through as a fascicle or unfolded one by one

offering a radical redefinition of the place of humanity within the realm of life

allowing her body to repeatedly give way to gravity and create a visual space to contemplate time

Japanese Ghost Stories - Lafcadio Hearn exhibitions With hands-on treatment from theThe dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore including the headless rokuro kubi, the monstrous goblins jikininki or the faceless mujina who stalk lonely neighbourhoods and infused them with his own memories of