In this MA Forum we welcome the artist and writer Daniel Jewesbury who will be speaking about The Death of Venus (2026), a new multi-channel film installation based in the Ancient Greek myth of Hermaphroditos. The installation is currently on show as part of Daniel’s two-person exhibition with Mirka Duijn at the Röda Sten Konsthall.
Using filmmaking as a research process, the lecture attempts to respond to a number of questions.
- How might a critical sense of the social and psychological functions of myth be useful in exploring aspects of desire and fantasy?
- How is the very act of looking, specifically at artworks, relevant to such a consideration?
- What formal and methodological approaches could synthesise these concerns and produce an artwork?
This lecture will address these questions, and introduce some of the contexts and processes involved in the production of the work.
Daniel Jewesbury
is an artist and writer, born in London in 1972. 16mm filmmaking and digital video are predominant tools in Daniel’s practice, though he also works with photography, performance and art writing. Prior to moving to Gothenburg in 2017, Daniel lived in Belfast for over 20 years, where he developed an ongoing interest in the city as a social and political form. Daniel is also keenly interested in the obscure workings and power of desire, fantasy and sexuality.
Image credit: Daniel Jewesbury, The Death of Venus, 2026, installation view, Rösa Sten, Gothenburg
