Overview participating exhibitions
Lost
2009
Lost
Michael Grieve
NO LOVE LOST (Great Britain, 2008)
Can people still make real contact with one another in a spiritually empty environment? In his complex series NO LOVE LOST Michael Grieve plunges into the worlds pornography, prostitution and strippers. In all these circles there is a sort of formal, controlled contact with strangers: a contact that is purely physical in nature, which offers no space for affection. It is a semi-real world in which people play roles, fantasies are acted out and belaboured, always ruled by threat. ‘My aim,’ he says, ‘was to understand my own take on one of the most basic drives.’ Thus no objective documentation of the sex industry, no sensationalism, and no uncovering victims. ‘Each image shows a different feeling: from no intimacy to intimacy where you least expect to find it.’
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NO LOVE LOST (Great Britain, 2008)
Can people still make real contact with one another in a spiritually empty environment? In his complex series NO LOVE LOST Michael Grieve plunges into the worlds pornography, prostitution and strippers. In all these circles there is a sort of formal, controlled contact with strangers: a contact that is purely physical in nature, which offers no space for affection. It is a semi-real world in which people play roles, fantasies are acted out and belaboured, always ruled by threat. ‘My aim,’ he says, ‘was to understand my own take on one of the most basic drives.’ Thus no objective documentation of the sex industry, no sensationalism, and no uncovering victims. ‘Each image shows a different feeling: from no intimacy to intimacy where you least expect to find it.’
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NO LOVE LOST (Great Britain, 2008)
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NO LOVE LOST (Great Britain, 2008)
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NO LOVE LOST (Great Britain, 2008)
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NO LOVE LOST (Great Britain, 2008)
Biography
No Love Lost (2008)
Can people still make real contact with one another in a spiritually empty environment? In his complex series No Love Lost Michael Grieve plunges into the worlds pornography, prostitution and strippers. In all these circles there is a sort of formal, controlled contact with strangers: a contact that is purely physical in nature, which offers no space for affection. It is a semi-real world in which people play roles, fantasies are acted out and belaboured, always ruled by threat. ‘My aim,’ he says, ‘was to understand my own take on one of the most basic drives.’ Thus no objective documentation of the sex industry, no sensationalism, and no uncovering victims. ‘Each image shows a different feeling: from no intimacy to intimacy where you least expect to find it.’
Michael Grieve (Great Britain, 1966) completed his Masters in photography in 1997 at the University of Westminster. He has published in The Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Independent Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Le Monde and Liberation, among other sources. No Love Lost will shortly appear in book form.
