On a clear day in Oxford, Raymond Greatorex, an aging Nietzsche scholar, encounters Beatrice Kopus, who is researching Virginia Woolf. Their rekindled relationship leads to a love affair intertwined with stories of Nietzsche, von Salome, and Raymond's ancestry, revealing profound secrets that reshape their identities.
Claire Morgan's (*1980) sculptures shake up our notion of a world neatly separated into nature and culture. She allows nature to break into the context of art by creating minimalist arrangements of plastic bits, seeds, and corpses. The artist uses taxidermy animals to fracture this supposed geometrical clarity, intermingling the artificial, the constructed with life and death. With her spaces and eco-poetic sculptures Morgan creates a refuge for nature as still life, deftly bringing us closer to the endangered beauty and fragility of her fauna.
The stories in Scar Tissue appear under the enigmatic headings of Space, Home, Away, Nowhere, Somewhere. Through a wide variety of characters and situations, Clare Morgan's subjects include sex, death, relationships, belonging and displacement. Engaging, beautifully made tales for our time.