Dead Souls Whisper (1986–1993)
Derek Jarman
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac
Derek Jarman, 40% of British Women, 1992 Oil and charcoal on printed papers on canvas Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London. Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac
Derek Jarman, Love Sex Death, 1992 Oil on canvas. Triptych. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London. Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. Derek Jarman, Death Dance, 1973 S8mm, couleur, 15 min 27 s. Starring Christopher Hobbs as Death, Gerald Incandela, Tim Spain, Robin Wall, Kevin Whitney. Courtesy: LUMA Foundation.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. In the foreground : Derek Jarman, Negative Image, 1992 Oil on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London. In the background : Derek Jarman, Positive, 1992 and Now we’ve all been screwed by the cabinet, 1992 Oil on printed papers on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. On the wall, from left to right: Derek Jarman, Kiss, 1992 ; AIDS Blood, 1992 ; Virus, 1992, TV Star, 1992. Oil on canvas and oil on printed papers on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. In the foreground: Derek Jarman, Spread the Plague, 1992. Oil on printed paper on canvas; In the background: Derek Jarman, Tragedy, 1992. Oil on printed paper on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. In the foreground: Sloane Square: A Room of One’s Own, 1974–1976 S8mm, color and black and white, 8 min 19 s. Shot by Derek Jarman and Guy Ford Starring: Guy Ford, Alasdair McGaw, Graham Cracker, Derek Jarman. Courtesy: LUMA Foundation.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. From left to right: Derek Jarman, I will come when you call (self portrait), 1987 ; Sleep, 1987 ; The Waxwork, 1987 ; Short Circuit, 1988 ; Untitled (Bone, Face and Cross), 1988 ; Untitled (gold bible), 1990 ; Untitled, 1988 ; Untitled, 1988 ; Untitled (Technico), 1989 ; Prima materia, 1992. Oil and mixed techniques on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. In the display case, from left to right: Household God III (Wagner), 1989 ; Household God II (Mozart), 1989 ; Untitled, 1988 ; Household God I (Handel), 1989. Mixed techniques. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust et Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. From left to right: Derek Jarman, The Waxwork, 1987 ; Short Circuit, 1988 ; Untitled (Bone, Face and Cross), 1988 ; Untitled (gold bible), 1990 ; Untitled, 1988 ; Untitled, 1988 ; Untitled (Technico), 1989 ; Prima materia, 1992. Oil and mixed techniques on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. From left to right: Derek Jarman, I will come when you call (self portrait), 1987 ; Sleep, 1987 ; The Waxwork, 1987 ; Short Circuit, 1988 ; Untitled (Bone, Face and Cross), 1988 ; Untitled (gold bible), 1990 ; Untitled, 1988 ; Untitled, 1988 ; Untitled (Technico), 1989 ; Oil and mixed techniques on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. From left to right: Derek Jarman, The Boy who drowned in Holy Water, 1990 ; Untitled, 1988 ; Archaeology, 1988. Oil and mixed techniques on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. From left to right: Household God VI (Mendelssohn), 1989 ; Untitled, 1988 ; Untitled, 1989. Mixed techniques. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. From left to right: Derek Jarman, Untitled (fan), 1991; At the Fifth Quarter of the Globe, 1988 ; Untitled (Comb), 1989 ; Untitled, 1988 ; Untitled, 1991. Oil and mixed techniques on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London. Sloane Square: A Room of One’s Own, 1974–1976 S8mm, color and black and white, 8 min 19 s. Shot by Derek Jarman and Guy Ford Starring: Guy Ford, Alasdair McGaw, Graham Cracker, Derek Jarman. Courtesy: LUMA Foundation.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. From left to right: Derek Jarman, Untitled (fan), 1991; At the Fifth Quarter of the Globe, 1988 ; Untitled (Comb), 1989 ; Untitled, 1988 ; Untitled, 1991 ; Silence, 1986 ; The Fairest Order in the World…, 1986. Oil and mixed techniques on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London. Sloane Square : A Room of One’s Own, 1974–1976 S8mm, color and black and white, 8 min 19 s. Shot by Derek Jarman and Guy Ford Starring : Guy Ford, Alasdair McGaw, Graham Cracker, Derek Jarman. Courtesy: LUMA Foundation.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. From left to right: Derek Jarman, Untitled (fan), 1991 ; At the Fifth Quarter of the Globe, 1988 ; Untitled (Comb), 1989 ; Untitled, 1988 ; Untitled, 1991 ; Silence, 1986 ; The Fairest Order in the World…, 1986 ; This Instant, 1987. Oil and mixed techniques on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. In the foreground: At Low Tide (The Siren and the Sailor), 1972. S8mm, color, 6 min 53 s. Shot by: Derek Jarman and Marc Balet. Starring: Andrew Logan, Bente Lohse. Costumes and accessories: Christopher Hobbs. Courtesy and © : LUMA Foundation.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. In the display case, from left to right: Untitled, 1989 ; Household God V (Molière), 1989 ; Untitled, 1989. Mixed techniques. Courtesy : Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. In the display case, from left to right: Untitled, 1989 ; Household God V (Molière), 1989 ; Untitled, 1989. Mixed techniques. On the wall, from left to right: Untitled, 1988 ; Film, 1988 ; The fifth quarter of the globe, 1987 ; Night Life, 1987 ; Every thought, 1987 ; Death is all the things we see awake, 1991 ; Untitled (red crucified figure), 1991. Oil and mixed techniques on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. From left to right: Untitled, 1988 ; Film, 1988 ; The fifth quarter of the globe, 1987 ; Night Life, 1987 ; Every thought, 1987 ; Death is all the things we see awake, 1991 ; Untitled (red crucified figure), 1991 ; Untitled, 1987 ; The Bridge of Sighs, 1987. Oil and mixed techniques on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. From left to right: The fifth quarter of the globe, 1987 ; Night Life, 1987 ; Every thought, 1987. Oil and mixed techniques on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. From left to right: Untitled, 1988 ; Film, 1988 ; The fifth quarter of the globe, 1987 ; Night Life, 1987 ; Every thought, 1987 ; Death is all the things we see awake, 1991 ; Untitled (red crucified figure), 1991. Oil and mixed techniques on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
View of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993) Photo: Marc Domage / le Crédac. Derek Jarman, Nightlife, 1990 ; Untitled (photo and string bale), 1991 ; Untitled (Clothes), 1989 ; Thee Thou, 1986 ; Untitled, 1987 ; The Common Prayer, 1989 ; Untitled, 1989 ; Dead Souls Whisper, 1987. Oil and mixed techniques (including tar) on canvas. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
Derek Jarman, Dead Souls Whisper, 1987. Oil and mixed techniques on canvas. 30,5 × 25,4 cm. Courtesy: Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson, London.
Derek Jarman, Blue, 1993 35mm, color, surround sound, 74 min, digitized. Courtesy: Basilisk Communications.
Curatorship: Claire Le Restif, in collaboration with Amanda Wilkinson and James Mackay
The artist, filmmaker, writer, musician and gay rights activist Derek Jarman (1942–1994) powerfully marked twentieth-century British culture. This exhibition, with some seventy works, highlights his practice as a painter and assemblagist. It focuses on the last part of his life, starting at the time of his HIV-positive diagnosis. This period coincides with the creation of his legendary garden Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent, whose cultivation was both a form of therapy and a metaphor for his own survival.
Language, conveying primal rage, is central to this show. It is expressed and assaults us in his Queer paintings series (1992), not hung but truly “installed” in the Crédac art space. Words are part of the paintings Spread the Plague, Tragedy, Aids Blood and Virus, where their quavering lines ruin the surface. This series is a process, as are the Super 8 films projected opposite the paintings. This show brings out Jarman’s interest in alchemy, assemblage and his collection of objects found washed up on the Dungeness beach.
The feature film Blue (1993) is shown in the Crédakino throughout the exhibition.
SESSIONS
- In English
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at 2.05 pm
Saturday and Sunday at 2.30 pm - In French
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at 3.25pm and 4.45pm
Saturday and Sunday at 3.50pm and 5.10pm
Accompanying the exhibition is a showing of The Tempest (from 24th to 30th November) and Jubilee (from 1st to 7th December) at the Ivry cinema, Le Luxy, and a publication in a co-edition with the fanzine Pleased to meet you.
From October to December, a series of talks also punctuates the exhibition: - Sunday, November 21 at 4pm
Sebastiane or Saint Jarman, queer filmmaker and martyr
Visit of the exhibition with Claire Le Restif, then stroll to the cinema of Ivry - the Luxy for a discussion with Didier Roth-Bettoni (journalist, author, historian of LGBTQI+ cinema). This meeting will be followed by a screening of the feature film Sebastiane at the Luxy.
Book here - Sunday, November 28 at 3pm
Dungeness’ seed bomb
Workshop with Benoît Piéron (artist)
Book here - Wednesday, December 1 and Thursday, December 2
On the occasion of World AIDS Day, projection of Blue at the Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection
More information to come - Sunday, December 12 at 4pm
Visit of the exhibition with Claire Le Restif, followed by a stroll to the cinema in Ivry - le Luxy for a discussion with Yann Beauvais (filmmaker and film critic). This meeting will be followed by the screening of The Last of England at the Luxy.
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Video(s)
Video documentary of the exhibition Derek Jarman - Dead Souls Whisper (1986-1993), Directed by Thomas James
Documents
- Room sheet — DEAD SOULS WHISPER (1986–1993), Derek Jarman3.44 MB / pdfDownload
Events & meetings
Partnerships
Production : Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry — le Crédac
Coproduction : Festival d’Automne à Paris
In collaboration with the Keith Collins Will Trust, Amanda Wilkinson Gallery (London), Basilisk Communications (London), LUMA Foundation (Zurich), et Pleased to meet you (Paris) ; and with the support of La Fab. (Paris)
