LE DERNIER CRI
Catalogue of collective hellxxhibition DC NAROK / co – édition Timeless+ Hunting Asia+
Le DERNIER CRI / Offset Quadri / 224 pages / 21-29,7 cm / 666 copies /
The DC NAROK exhibition captures visions of Buddhist Hell. A state-of-the-art tribute to the mortuary cult and Thai horror manga. In Thailand, in fact, the popular craze for horror is very real, permeating a great diversity of cultural, popular or scholarly productions. In Buddhist philosophy, the Underworld is a purgatory where the dead are subjected to torture to expiate their faults before being reincarnated. They sometimes come back to haunt the living. Hell and Paradise are the subject of a monumental, often morbid, iconographic representation of these Hells, frighteningly realistic.
Le Dernier Cri presents for the first time in France a selection of works by some fifty international artists on this theme of the Buddhist Underworld entitled “DC NA-ROK”. Published in 2019 by Timeless editions, NAROK (“hell” in Thai) is a catalog of photos by Stephen Bessac which show the infernal sculptures of different sites. Listing some of these “Thai infernal parks”, it is these often Dantesque religious images that marry here with the imagination of the Last Scream. The “DC NAROK” exhibition focuses on this still little explored aesthetic, which recalls the darkest visions of Hieronymus Bosch, medieval engravings or grand guignolesque scenes.