Vertebrae After the Fall

What first reads as an anatomical diagram - a spinal column, its lateral processes jutting at irregular intervals like interrupted syntax - resolves under scrutiny into something closer to Giacometti's territory: the body approached only through its own refusal to hold together. Firth uses anatomy as pretext rather than subject, the wavering left margin acting as a plumb line the whole structure leans against and fails.

- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery