This painting is from a series entitled “Victims”. In this series, I examined dozens of movies and television shows in order to examine the representation of death, particularly that of the extras. Within the varied representation, I discovered tropes from the history of painting (particularly religious painting), mixed with contemporary or fashionable motifs of sexuality, eroticism and other embellishments. “Afterlife” examines the plight of so many extras, namely, the paradox of being imprinted upon the eternal memory of the silver screen not as an actor per se, but as a corpse.

Dylan Cram

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Dylan Cram was born in Victoria in 1977, he graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts from Victoria College of Art in 2000, and holds a BFA in photography with Great Distinction from Concordia University in 2008. In 2017, he completed an MFA cum Laude in the Media, Art and Design course at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. To date, he has participated in numerous local and international exhibitions and residencies and his work is part of numerous private collections. He is currently represented by Gallery Merrick in Victoria BC.