Grey Nurse The Ripper

Available in October 2026

Historical shark attacks on women
Ballerina injuries
Ghost Story (1981)
Lustmord
Leg Show Magazine

"When I listen to Sam’s work or look at his art I perceive the greatest and clearest manifestation of utmost, sincere, guts-deep obsession. 
The sort of self-inflicted curse that draws you in a cycle of endless, strict, painstaking, clinical research.
...I see the struggle to find the precise conjunction of special interests, compulsions, urges and ecstasy; 
the perverse juxtaposition of desire, longing, their visual and conceptual deconstruction laid bare, flat on a dissecting table.
It’s obvious that it’s a long process, over-complicated by a thick system of cryptic, self-imposed rules.

...The abstract, codified ritual of classic ballet is connected to the redundant, glorious, hissing sleaze of 70’s Italian flesh feasts on VHS. 
Both are connected to the profile of shark bite wounds in grainy video stills, to the cadaverous bloom of gore and blood in deep blue water.
They’re all connected to that precise loud crackling sound, to that engine roaring, to that nervous, obsessive scratch on paper.
It’s pinnacle, fetishized abstraction, codified pain. 
It’s the attempt to translate an intricate system of personal lusts and very specific passions to medias that can be seen, listened to and touched.”
*** Nicola Vinciguerra

48 pages
A5 format
Perfect bound
28 original drawings by THE RITA
Additional related photographs by THE RITA
Notes by Nicola Vinciguerra
All original drawings are 11” x 14” with ballpoint pen, pencil, pencil crayon
Explicit content

Published by:
Turgid Forlag
Peer Pressure Press

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