The collection of death-defying stories known as The Thousand and One Nights is reconfigured in John Reynolds' work as a dark double-sided wailing wall of words, fragments and torn phrases. Like some architectonic Trojan Horse, this 1001 Nights spills a harrowing present-day content quoting language and terms from Robert Fisk's mammoth recent history of the Middle East, The Great War for Civilisation.
1001 Nights is installed at The Armory Show, Starkwhite booth 527, to 7 March 2010.
Images: John Reynolds, 1001 Nights (2010), Starkwhite at The Armory Show, New York, March 2010
