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Positive Nation
edited by Rose de Freitas
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Underwear twisted like oysters on a bed. Bodies twisted in sex. A plastic bag scrunched on a pavement. Bicycles stranded and iced by the snow. Signs and sunsets. Bedroom waste and urban detritus feature heavily in Bill Quinn's artwork. His new show, Postcards from the Wedge, opens at Brixton's Fridge Gallery on 22 March and includes 10 triptych pieces. Each made up of beautiful, bleak images. Each celebrating the "bioharzardous" nature of human and inaminate interaction.
The pictures are taken using low-end digital and disposable cameras and

Red, white and blue

Helsinki

Happy ever

then put through a process of ink-jet printing and pasted up onto giant canvases. Billy adds the finishing tough on the canvas by creating a soft scarred surface.
Some of the pieces indirectly refer to how Aids has effected the way people interact.
"The presence of Aids, a sex-related disease... affects the morality of our age and

redefines us" reads his Artist's Statement. In one piece, there are frank images of fucking. Billy's previous work has also referred to HIV and its

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