The walls of prison cell are decorated with the words «Never submit» and «Revenge.»
Others have a more painterly quality, where vibrant brushstrokes scratch at the canvas, like a man scratching at
the walls of a prison cell.
Not exact matches
Denied the status
of political prisoners, inmates in Northern Ireland's Maze
prison decided to wear only
prison blankets and spread their
cell walls with excrements.
Nearly one year ago, with the help
of a
prison tailor shop instructor and a correction officer, Richard Matt and David Sweat cut into their
cell walls and into a steam pipe and crawled through it to emerge through a manhole on a street in the village
of Dannemora.
The prisoners used power tools to saw through a steel
cell wall and several steel steam pipes, bashed a hole through a 2 - foot - thick brick
wall, squirmed through pipes and popped out
of a manhole outside the
prison.
The two used power tools to break through the
walls of their
cells and work their way out through the
prison infrastructure to the streets outside.
Among those sources used by Gorecki are a 15th - century lamentation
of the Holy Cross Monastery; a folk song from the Opole region; and, most specifically, a young prisoner's inscription on the
wall of her
cell in Zakopane's Gestapo
prison.
Whether to document Fontaine's frustrated but affecting communication with the prisoners in adjacent
cells or to establish his awareness
of life outside the
prison walls, sounds and unseen spaces assume a vivid reality every bit as palpable as what we see on the screen.
In a similar vein, a series
of photographic self - portraits by the 2000 Turner Prize - winner Wolfgang Tillmans, titled Separate System, Reading (2016), show the artist looking at himself in a mirror on a
prison cell wall.