Zombizi is a visual artist working primarily in the photographic medium, with digital manipulations done post production. Included in this exhibition will be approximately twenty works of mostly photographic prints from several series, alongside new work. Zombizi's work, which can be visceral, funny and poignant by turn, has been gaining a steady following over the internet. The artist's main subject is himself, and through this ageing, mortality, and the relationship of the flesh to the self. More recently however, the gaze has widened to include distorted and manipulated pictures of both other people and of raw meat (often combined with horrific effect). Several pieces are portraits from the series "Portraits of People I have Never Met" in which the artist manipulates images sent to him via e-mail. These collaborations play with the notion of relationships in the internet age. The result is fascinating, flattering and unflattering at the same time and calls to mind Andy Warhol's portraits of famous people from the 1970's and 80's. Like Warhol these images are made using a mechanical process and convey a distance and intimacy at the same time. From the series Just Offal are several images of various organs from pigs and chickens photographed on a stark white background in excruciating detail. The result is beautiful and pure and not the slightest bit repulsive; they also reflect the artist's political views, the relationship of meat and self, of the objectification of animals and our relationship with the natural world. His work also calls to mind Matthew Barney, his medium of animal organs rather than petroleum, the photographs evoke a documentation of a performance. This exhibition offers a rare chance to see these digital works in the flesh, and with some dark surprises promised should prove an entertaining insight into the bloody world of Zombizi. all images © zombizi 2008