Video: Cheerless sectarians in white sheets: Moby exhibition "Innocents"
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
People in ridiculous or scary masks, wrapped in white robes, against the backdrop of ominous landscapes - this is a summary of the new exhibition of the famous photographer Moby in Los Angeles. Yes exactly. Famous photographer.
In a fit of nostalgia for the good old nineties, any music lover will immediately name several big names: Kurt Cobain, Tupac, Alanis Morissette and Richard Melville Hall. Although, the latter is still unlikely, because Mr. Hall performed under a pseudonym. But one that still serves as an emblem for all electronic music, techno and breakbeat that were produced in this decade. Moby.
Since his first resounding success in 1991, DJ, singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Moby has toured the world, amassing stadiums full of loyal fans, and sold over twenty million albums.
The last thing you can blame Hollis for is idleness. For more than 20 years, he has written music for radio, film and television, regularly gives concerts, collaborates with a number of charities and movements, and even writes essays, which he publishes as inserts in an album box.
But few people know that in parallel with his main activity, Moby makes time to try on the role of an artist, or rather, a photographer. In 2011, his photographs of the "Destroyed" series were exhibited in several galleries and published as a book accompanying the album of the same name. Her main theme was the life of a musician on tour: crowds of fans, concert halls, cityscapes, hotel rooms and dressing rooms.
But Moby's new exhibit, which recently took place in Los Angeles, is a different story altogether. In the series "Innocents" there is much less reporting (although the fascination with the man-made landscape is still visible) and much more staged psychedelia. Although Moby himself prefers the word "spirituality".
The shots depict masked characters in a post-apocalyptic world and boast a rich collection of white robes, ominous landscapes and absurd stories.
The action takes place in Southern California and, according to Moby's legend, people who survived the apocalypse that came in 2012 are trying to adapt to new realities.
The people in white sheets and Halloween masks are members of the Innocent sect who see the end of the world as a just punishment for human sins. "It is obvious that we ourselves have brought our own troubles, and now we must hide ourselves as a sign of shame in front of who we are and who we were" - this is how Moby formulates the mute manifesto of his heroes.
And since we are talking about the nineties, music and photography, we cannot fail to mention the photo session of Craig McDean with the beautiful and elusive Thom Yorke.
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