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Enter Love and Enter Death

Enter Love and Enter Death was our solo exhibition made for the seven rooms of Inverleith House, the Georgian mansion in Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden. In a pared-back and confrontational installation throughout the building, handmade sculptural constructions divide the space and the bodies of those populating it. The fabricated structures marked out the space (and its imagined potential functions). These divisions, determined to some extent by the fabric of the architecture, suggest feelings of somehow being categorised; split up into oppositional camps or simply surrounded. Through minimal means, the viewer's vision is obstructed and their movement frustrated: They are implicated within the work and forced to experience it. Once inside, the proximity and position of the framework compound the impossibility of being able to see the entire structure which is only comprehensible in the mind’s eye or imagination. These ideas were transposed into print on paper in a large-scale publication which attempted to be an extension of the work as well as its particular document. We used black & white photocopies of our documentation to give a sense of the work's simple, direct presence and deliberately utilised white borders and breaks from this reproduction process as part of the structure of the book's layout. This was then scanned, designed and printed in a limited edition, working with renowned book designer Robert Dalrymple, Edinburgh. The resulting artists' book is an invaluable vehicle for the dissemination of a new body of work in the public domain; vitally making it available, in another format, in another way, to a wider audience who may not have had a chance to see the actual exhibition.