/ MASS REQUIEM / Painting

Hannah Kate Absalom (b.1998, Northumberland) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in London. Absalom’s practice utilises the uncanny and grotesque to investigate the intersections of religious iconography, horror and queerness. Through the mediums of oil-painting, printmaking, moving-image and installation, the artist blends the sacred and the otherworldly, lending from the camp and overly-saturated graphics of classic horror and Sci-Fi. Absalom's works, often figurative approach the flesh as a site of bodily horror, comedic relief and intimacy. Through acts of fictioning and Gesamtkunstwerk, Absalom aims to create installational sites of ritual and mysticism in which characters and motifs drift from one work to another, like the merging and blurring boundaries within dreams. Absalom queers landscapes and characters to concoct an image both camp and macabre; the imagery used can often be unsettling, disturbing and hypnotic in its blending of dream and dogma. Absalom is also part of the multidisciplinary and performance collectives FLESH TIDE GHOST and This Cruel Temple.