PRIVATE VIEW: JULY 7 2009: 6:30 - 10:00PM
EXHIBITION: JULY 8 - JULY 30 2009
OPENING TIMES: TUESDAY - SATURDAY: 12:30 - 6:00PM

Sartorial Contemporary Art is pleased to present ‘ I love You Like a Murderer Loves Their Victims', the first solo exhibition at the gallery by James Unsworth. In the project space Unsworth will exhibit over 20 photographic prints. Half of the project space is dedicated to ‘Shithead', his first large-scale film installation.

Set on a university campus the photographs and movies from ‘ I love You Like a Murderer Loves Their Victims' revel in their low budget aesthetic, framed by empty educational spaces that induce a sense of isolation, tension and danger. The scenes are populated by hyper-unreal depictions of murder, sex and dismemberment, comic/horrific figures engaged in acts of disembowelment, degradation and desecration while piles of body parts are splattered with simulated bodily fluids and are gradually engulfed by smoke.

The projection ‘Shithead' features characters occupied in activity beyond the common realm of human behaviors, transgressing natural boundaries and descending into a devolved state of blood lust and self-gratification.

Scenes inspired by the low budget horror movies of his youth, research into homosexual serial killers and the life and death of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are spliced together into an incoherent orgy of on screen horror.

Minimally displayed in a white cube gallery setting the horror, stench and gore is all in the images allowing the viewer a voyeuristic look into a world of violence and inhumanity.

Unsworth's photographic prints and films are at once horrific and humorous, bodily and bawdy, they embody the true spirit of grotesque.