"Just 27 at the time of his death, Dash Snow cut a dashing silhouette at the vanguard of the East Village art scene in fin de siècle New York. Hailing from the de Menil family, he abandoned the trappings of luxury for the street, joining the legendary IRAK graffiti crew. As the 1990s gave way to the 2000s, Snow pinballed around town with the effortless flair of a self-styled enfant terrible, blazing a singular path across photography, collage, zine making, and sculpture."
"Polaroid camera in hand, Snow saw it all, crafting hypnotic images of New York at the dawn of a brave new world he would not live to see. Here, the artist is actor, collaborator and provocateur, striking a balance between public figure and enigma in the spirit of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol. Snow famously posed for Dave Schubert in a bathtub filled with his Polaroids, every picture containing a story as delectable as the image itself."
"With Dash Snow: Carrion, the inaugural exhibition at Morán Morán in Paris, curator Jeppe Ugelvig brings together nearly 50 Polaroid photographs that situate the artist in the long arc of history. Taking its title from Charles Baudelaire's 1857 poem, Une Charogne (A Carcass), Carrion is a study in the intoxicating pleasures of decadence seen through the eyes of a star born to endless night."
Dash Snow, born into the de Menil family, rejected privilege to immerse himself in New York’s street culture and join the IRAK graffiti crew. He worked across photography, collage, zines and sculpture, becoming a charismatic, transgressive figure in the East Village scene. Armed with a Polaroid camera, he captured intimate, often violent or erotic moments that evoke themes of life, death and rebirth and memorialize a vanishing city. The Carrion exhibition at Morán Morán in Paris assembles nearly 50 Polaroids, framing Snow’s work within a lineage of decadence and poetic decay inspired by Baudelaire.
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