BLOB is a book and exhibition project by Eddy Frankel. It is a vile and miserable short story about a man whose bones are disintegrating, published with newly commissioned artworks by Rachel Howard, Olivia Sterling, Mary Ramsden, Shadi Al-Atallah, Glen Pudvine, France-Lise McGurn, Emma Cousin, Gareth Cadwallader and Luke Burton.
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\nEddy, Time Out’s arts and culture editor, reached out to a group of artists he loves and asked if they’d be willing to make a piece in response to the story he’d written. Was he nervous about sending all these incredible painters what’s essentially an incredibly depressing wank joke? Yes. But somehow they all said yes, and produced amazing paintings and drawings to go with the story.
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\nBLOB is part fiction, part art catalogue, part curatorial project. It deals with depression, aging, anxiety, body dysmorphia, and erectile dysfunction, but in a rather funny way?
