At a glance
Jerome could easily be imagined as a slightly
perverse freak blending effortlessly into the
deviant subcultures he documents... Or is he
a chameleon of the highest order able to slip
in and observe without being noticed? But he
is noticed; he’s the urban ninja cyclist,
the man with the inflatable forehead, the guy
who cut his own finger off, the guy with all
the scars. He’s also the well dressed
artist at his openings, the well spoken TV
guest challenging listeners to know themselves,
the talented web designer. His work and his
own image are well recognized in Europe, Japan,
not to mention the Americas... at least in
the right circles. Jerome Abramovitch moves
seamlessly between object, subject, voyeur,
and documenter.
Jerome has
photographed many of the world's most extreme
individuals, has documented the radical body
modification community and sexual underground
from the inside out, and worked closely with
some of the biggest names in freakdom ever to
spend five minutes being exploited by obscure
cable TV stations.
Jerome’s
original concept known as “The Inflatable
Forehead” received
instant infamy and media acclaim but the real
impact of the stunt was perhaps best illustrated
in the following quote from Shannon Larratt,
internationally recognized body rites and body
modification expert, creator and publisher of
BMEzine.com, the largest and oldest full-spectrum
body modification publication on the planet:
"Jerome
Abramovitch's forehead injection
was pretty much universally regarded
as the wildest, freakiest thing
that most Modcon attendees had
ever seen... and this is
coming from guys who have cut
out human testicles and eaten
them fresh". |
Jerome
has been featured on Ripley's Believe it or Not,
the Learning Channel, the Ricki Lake Show and
Pro-Sieben in Germany. He is immortalized as
the cover model for the controversial ModCon
book. Exhibitions include the Quebec City Museum
of Civilization, Daniel Langlois' Ex-Centris
new media complex in Montreal and the art snobanarchist
Gender / Mutation event of 2004 with graffiti
painter Zilon...
[written
by Pierre Ferguson Black, 2005]
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