Als der Hirtenjunge Bat in der Savanne ein verwaistes Elefantenjunges entdeckt, nimmt er es mit in sein Dorf. Bat weiß, dass das Elefantenmädchen Meya eines Tages in die Wildnis zurückkehren muss. Trotzdem trifft ihn der Abschied mitten ins Herz. Auch die Idylle des Dorflebens findet ein jähes Ende, als Rebellen Bat und seine Freundin Muka entführen, um sie zu Kindersoldaten auszubilden. Doch in ihrer größten Verzweiflung geschieht etwas Magisches. Etwas, auf das Bat seit langem gehofft hat.
'Time to Change' takes the basic format and principles of 'The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatiu's and allows us to make a retreat without interrupting too much your ordinary daily life and all the things you have to do.
This is the most comprehensive publication on Mat Collishaw's career to date. It features an essay by Sue Hubbard, an interview by Rachel Campbell-Johnston and over 250 colour images spanning more than two decades of work. The artist is a key figure in the important generation of British artists (YBAs) who emerged from Goldsmith's College in the late 1980s. Collishaw's art envelops us in a twilight world poised between the alluring and the revolting, the familiar and the shocking, the poetic and the morbid. With a visual language embracing diverse media, the beauty of Collishaw's work draws us in - seductive, captivating, hypnotic - only to more forcefully repel us as we perceive the darker fantasies within. A repulsion triggered not by what we see, but by our innate response to it. Pornography, the crucifixion, gleaming fairies, syphilitic child prostitutes, bestiality, bondage, addiction, religion, exaltation and despair, even the final hours of a death-row inmate. There is seemingly no taboo left unbroken, no dark corner Collishaw is unwilling to explore - and yet, the work is utterly romantic, exquisitely beautiful, an expression of Collishaw's wish to 'create images that are awe-inspiring'. This book has been published on the occasion of the artist's first ever exhibition of paintings, THIS IS NOT AN EXIT at BlainSouthern, London (14 February - 30 March 2013).