My show GENTLE BATTLE is still on view at Tramway, Glasgow until August 14th. Sum Deaths Take 4ever is a sculpture made of plasticine and chainmail. A tribute to Bernard Szajner’s debut album “Some deaths take forever”. Originally released in 1980, the album is a deeply emotional, sometimes disturbing musical account of the feelings of a prisoner on death row, conceived as the soundtrack to a short film by Amnesty International. The album is battleground music, a true musical epic poem — it mixes dark, angular and unnerving electronic textures with dynamic rock arrangements, guest musicians including Bernard Paganotti from Magma. I started a correspondence with Szajner during the pandemic, exchanging ideas about conceptualism in music, protest music but also survival as Szajner is a WWII/Holocaust survivor. Both a tribute to an artist and a reference to fandoms, the sculpture mirrors itself with the original poster of Bernard Szajner's project, stuck to the wall near the Sleep Paralysis sculpture — a reference to heavily decorated 1990s teenagers' bedrooms.