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Publisher Note

Close Your Eyes is a frenzied reworking of the accumulated archive of photographer Gareth McConnell. An onslaught of kaleidoscopic imagery fuses portraits he took of rave-goers in Ibiza with pictures he both shot and found of a number of key moments in recent British history, from the 1985 Battle of the Beanfield to the London Riots of 2011. Amongst this we find collected references to the Zen mystic Osho, whose people are said to have experimented with Ecstasy and taken it into clubs in Ibiza for the first time.

This is a personal, political body of work–a frustrated meditation on the nature of human occurrence, the power of mass communion in it’s many forms, and the delirious experience of losing oneself to hedonism from the view of someone who saw it from within. As an object, the book is an immersive experience, galvanised with the same primal energy of the rave, it’s rapture and it’s ecstasy. Rhythm, Pulse, Rave, Repeat.
Source

Artists’ Book

Close Your Eyes

by Gareth McConnell

Publisher
Edition 1st edition
Release Date October 2014
Credits
Printrun 1000
Inscription signed, numbered
Dimensions 21.6 × 26.7 cm
Technique Lithography

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