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‘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
RIP Germain’s brutal, uncomfortable, confrontational installation explores UK drill music’s lyrical violence – and society’s voracious appetite for it. Visitors face up to ‘the death that’s being sold and celebrated’ Photograph: Mark Blower/Mark Blower, courtesy RIP Germain and Cabinet.The work isn’t an attack on UK drill culture, far from it. at the ICA in 2023, centred on a genuine, blinged-out, Hatton Garden-made thick gold necklace of a white Tupac wearing a crown of thorns, encrusted with diamonds, rubies and sapphires.
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