Half Life

According to Denis Kambouchner's introduction, Half Life is a hauntedbook. It is certainly disturbing; in Michael Ackerman's world, something isdisintegrating. The landscapes are harsh and unwelcoming, but it is theanguish of individuals that stirs us most deeply—their expressions ofdistress and confusion, their unfinished gestures, the sense of damage.These are people who appear to live in the ruins of a drama. It is as iftheir whole bodies were given over to a scream.

Michael Ackerman is amember of the prestigious Agence/Gallerie Vu, has been exhibited worldwide,and has won several international awards. He lives in Berlin.