HATEby Michael Salerno
In this haunting new book, artist Michael Salerno peels back the layers of his previous work, exposing a raw and disturbing core.
HATE presents a series of sequenced images — explicitly sexual, eerie, ghostlike — that trace the life of a nameless boy between the ages of 2 to 14 years old, as an all-engulfing darkness embeds itself into every corner of his house and finally consumes him.
It’s an uncompromising vision of an “in-between world” where rooms hold secrets, acts of evil conjure entities, violence seeps into the walls and screams are absorbed into the carpet.
HATE
Out 17 December 2020
Hardbound, 80 pages, 170 x240mm
ISBN 978-1-8382803-0-7
First edition limited to 200 copies.
Michael Salerno is an Australian artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Paris. Employing a variety of media, including photography, collage, video and installation, his work has been featured in numerous magazines, on book and album covers and exhibited in galleries and film festivals across Europe, USA and Australia. He has published numerous fanzines including five issues of the infamous “Teenage Satanists in Oklahoma” (2012 - 2018). His first book, “Home” (in collaboration with American writer Peter Sotos) was published in 2013 and his second book, the 180-page monograph “Childhood” was published in 2015. Michael also runs Kiddiepunk, which releases limited edition zines and books.