The project ‘All Beauty Must Die’, started in 2009 and it’is a collaboration between Patrícia Almeida and David-Alexandre Guéniot. The title makes reference both to a line of Nick Cave’s 1996 lyrics: ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’ and a line from the ‘Ode on Melancholy’ by John Keats, an English romantic poet from the XIX century. In the photographs we see young people in bewildered nature, in idyllic perfection. What connects Patrícia Almeida’s photographs of youth celebrating (in) nature, the poetry of Keats or Wordsworth and the lyrics of rock musicians like Nick Cave or Neil Young. With delicate tools, the artist attempts to compare the deterioration of youth and utopia
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