RIP Germain
R.I.P. Germain' is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans installation, sculpture, and video. His practice interrogates coded architectures, subcultural visibility, and the systems that police Black cultural expression. In 2023, he was named by Time Out London as one of “the nine best young artists working in the city.”[1][2]
Themes and practice
Germain’s work frequently takes the form of large-scale, walk-in installations that often operate like stage sets or escape rooms and borrow the language of everyday architecture — shopfronts, offices, or nightclubs — to create spaces that stage questions of access, visibility, and exclusion.[3]
Exhibitions
At the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2023, his show Jesus Died For Us, We Will Die For Dudus! recreated façades of jewellery shops and false-front businesses associated with street economies, described as “baggy spaces” that blur legality and spectacle. The show later toured to FACT Liverpool.[4]
In 2025, his installation Anti-Blackness Is Bad, Even the Parts That We Like at Cabinet Gallery featured a stark analysis of UK drill culture, incorporating a police-van turned coffin that played 101 hours of drill videos.[5]
References
- ↑ "The future of London art: The nine best young artists working in the city". Time Out London. 17 February 2023. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ↑ Bobowicz, Joe (7 April 2025). "Is this R.I.P. Germain's most chilling show yet?". The Face. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ↑ "Don't Close the Door: RIP Germain Remembers the Past to Reclaim the Future". Elephant. 23 August 2024. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ↑ Jennings, Will (11 August 2024). "Please do touch the art: enter R.I.P. Germain's underground world in Liverpool". Wallpaper\*. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ↑ Harrison, Anya (23 April 2025). "R.I.P. Germain "Anti-Blackness Is Bad, Even The Parts That We Like"". Flash Art. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
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