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A multimedia installation meditating on the lived spaces of a legendary London poet

In this two-volume publication, Swiss filmmaker Hannes Sch�pbach (born 1965) responds to the lived spaces of the London-based poet and translator Stephen Watts (born 1952), described by writer Iain Sinclair as "a living ghost liberated from Sebald's fiction and granted a richly posthumous existence, as he continues to bear witness to the truth." The eponymous exhibition, a cinematographic photo installation extending frieze-like over 78 feet on view at Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts (London), is chronicled in the first volume, and a selection of Watts' poetry, translated by Sch�pbach into German, comprises the second. Underlaid with fragments of poetry from Watts' Ancient Sunlight, the 24 snapshots that make up Sch�pbach's frieze document the author's everyday life while also highlighting the intimacy of Watts' home as a space of making. Punctuated by translator Jo Catling's essay, this project brings together the art of poetry, translation and photography to create a cosmos of creation dedicated to Watts' 40-year oeuvre.

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