Doctor Faustus is the Opera Prima of Christopher Marlow, written at the end of XVI century. He was killed just few years after he wrote it, possibly because of the high content of blasphemy and political and social critique that the play had (for the time).
Initially, I focused my research on this concept of revulsion, provocation and grotesque. The theory of Hell and Earth as one connected by suffering and the third law of the dynamic (cause-consequence), every action has a following reaction, thus we are the owner of our acts.
I have been inspired for this character by the vulnerability of Bowery, represented by Lucian Freud, a couple of years, before he died, as a direct comparison of the moment Lucifer fell from Heaven that made him vulnerable.
I have found a huge connection between Leigh Bowery and Faustus. Bowery was a transgressive icon in 80’ benign a sample of grotesque, sexualised character, lust and provocation.