NO LOVE LOST (Great Britain, 2008)
Can people still make real contact with one another in a spiritually empty environment? In his complex series NO LOVE LOST Michael Grieve plunges into the worlds pornography, prostitution and strippers. In all these circles there is a sort of formal, controlled contact with strangers: a contact that is purely physical in nature, which offers no space for affection. It is a semi-real world in which people play roles, fantasies are acted out and belaboured, always ruled by threat. ‘My aim,’ he says, ‘was to understand my own take on one of the most basic drives.’ Thus no objective documentation of the sex industry, no sensationalism, and no uncovering victims. ‘Each image shows a different feeling: from no intimacy to intimacy where you least expect to find it.’
