![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The presentation begins at the start-to Nick's youth, with mementoes of his parents and his early inspirations-Leonard Cohen, punk progenitors The Saints, Johnny Carson-along with clues about Nick's growing restlessness. The scores are punctuated by snippets of sonic memories-"Here's Johnny!", "Hands up who wants to die!". Encapsulating Nick's obsessions with a yearning to define those obsessions into words, the exhibit melds the visual with music soundtracks-some tense and destabilizing, as if to warn that the voyage was not smooth-written by Nick and close collaborator Warren Ellis. There's a sense running throughout not only of what was, but of what was lost and, most of all, of what came of it all. ![]() The show is a labyrinthine art project that splices together important stages in Nick's life, replete with the people and things that have shaped him. It's the first line of the introduction that greets you at the exhibition's entrance, and while I didn’t think much of it at first, it became quickly clear that this exhibition was more than just a collection of relics. "Stranger than Kindness explores the intersection between Nick Cave's inner and outer worlds". ![]()
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