julian rowe

visual artist

visual artist

...the heart is another country

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The Heart is Another Country grew out of my reading of Conrad’s "Heart of Darkness". The novel is an account of a journey into unknown territory in search of an extraordinary individual, the enigmatic trader Kurtz, an embodiment of civilised virtues in a savage land. When he is found, Kurtz turns out to have become a corrupt monster. On one level the book is a condemnation of colonial exploitation, but it has much deeper resonances. The Heart is Another Country might be imagined as the remnant of such a journey, a collection of objects plundered from a remote place.

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julian rowe

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