Jim Coverley works as a very careful surgeon on old sheets, remains of an old life, full of varnished dreams and wrapped and hidden secrets. The body is always at stake in Coverley¹s art. He abstracts the essence of pain, our very existence as human beings, from the corporeal shell and its vulnerability, in order to find a different substance, a soul perhaps, a core of immutable identity. Possessing our own bodies between the sheets, we turn inwards towards a basic existence, of a physical entity; and in our nightmares one dream about losing this entity, our bodies being dissolved and damaged, cut open, flayed and abandoned.
Jim Coverley

Jim Coverley biography

Text by Christophe Kihm (2008)

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