Chris Womersley
Rebecca Starford reviews 'The Low Road' by Chris Womersley
Rebecca Starford
Saturday, 01 December 2007
The resounding metaphor in The Low Road is that of a bullet wound and ‘the shock waves it sends through the body, often creating a cavity ahead of where the bullet stops. Almost as if the body accommodates the object’s anticipated trajectory and manufactures its very own injury.’ Chris Womersley’s intentions are suitably applicable to this laparoscopic image: to examine the cycle of crime, social alienation and despair, set against an uncanny dystopian landscape.
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Published in
December 2007–January 2008, no. 297