Bloody Men

 

River Dillon presents portraits he made with blood.
The first were done around 1998 in New York with a Japanese model playing
Brooklyn's Saint, a mix between Saint Sabastian ant the character played by
Matt Dillon in the Saint of Manhattan. They were followed by pictures of men
bleeding, tears of blood and bloody wounds, made with pink seaweed,
sometimes with fake and real blood, or created with photos of bodies
repainted with red paint. Dillon also superimposes faces with pictures of
blood stains. The artist sheds blood to show the wounds of a desperate
passion, the sad end of an ex-love story, the illness of a blood polluted by
aids with the visual shocking contrast between a young skin and the
magnificient blood-red color.



Lapidaction
Dillon will also present a performance. One after the other  20 persons will
throw stones  on a previously filmed naked man projected on the soil. The
guy begins to bleed and seems to die like in Iranian gay's lapidations.

River Dillon was born in 1968. He lives in Paris. He already exhibited
Dornenmänner in Berlin in the Schwules Museum in 2006 for Europäischer Monat
der Fotografie and ARTFRANCEBERLIN.