Richard Maguire Platform Edinburgh Art Festival

MIDNIGHT HORROR
GRAPHITE ON PAPER, GRAPHITE ON PAPER MOUNTED ON FOUND PAPER

Within Aubrey Menen's Autobiography 'The Space Within The Heart', Menen recounts a series of events leading him to work for The British in India overseeing and surveilling adivasi's in a jungle. Starting from performing a sex act with another man for a white women's interest in the mechanics of same-sex practices (who was part of the Bloomsbury group), he discovers his mother has had a private detective surveilling him - he had previously been taken to court for his play "Genesis", and was about to be reported for sodomy and had been working for a prolonged period for The India League attempting to aid in the decolonisation from British rule. At this point his Indian father helps him escape to India working for his upper class relatives where he now helps in the cultural production of the anti-war effort this. Written through a series of flashbacks, and Jamesian construction he awakes from a terror (then) realising his enmeshment in the colonisation of India and its futility. And again in Rome after converting to catholocism all the way back through his Irish mother's indoctrination by Catholic Missionaries, and a brown doll.

Midnight Horror is also the english name for a plant based within Indian Jungles, where a tree's pods appear like hanging swords and fall to its roots appearing like a mass of broken bones...