Shadow Fux

Renowned in their respective mediums of film and painting, Harmony Korine and Rita Ackermann meet in their mutual affection for unorthodox, mischievous beauty, and more specifically in the creation of psychologically jarring figures amplified through fragmented narratives.

The book documents the artists’ first collaboration. Taking Korine’s film Trash Humpers (2009) as its point of departure, it features large-scale works in which Ackermann and Korine have collaged, painted and drawn over stills of the film’s beguiling young bodies with old faces. Generated through a call-and-response method, Shadow Fux illustrates the importance of cutting to both artists’ works. Additionally, it presents short texts by Korine, as well as previously unpublished deleted scenes from Trash Humpers.

Shadow Fux aims to create a veritable alien, who stalks the viewer from the fringe. The eerie paintings and their filmic complements are an unyielding monument to the freak, the hysteric, the rake, and the eccentric.