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the show sees rosa making fun of what it's like to finally be in a long-term relationship. her previous show tackled the ins and outs of her long search for the right guy. now, having found him, she's quick to laugh at all the absurdities of trying to keep him. 

rosa went with the poster concept you see here, itself inspired by the work of north american artist han cao. fanny took the photograph of rosa with her real-life boyfriend in paris and sent it to berlin. meanwhile caspar headed to a berlin sweet shop and returned with two huge bags of candy. work then began on printing the photograph out and covering the boyfriend's face with the goods. the act was an attempt to poetically capture rosa's feelings about love.

caspar had long been bothered with how badly daft punk had executed the cover artwork for their final album, random access memories. despite having access to their own helmets to photograph, they made a poor computer rendering of them instead. now, since the protomen had often referred to themselves as "a southern, buck-toothed daft punk", it felt right to finally set the record straight. we shipped their smashed-up, 20 year old helmets to joey ciccoline and he set about photographing them in the appropriate manner.

if you have the means to make it to the show we do recommend it. the protomen are, despite the tongue-in-cheek daft punk reference here, one of the most unique and extraordinary live bands in existence today. 

caspar made the wild light artwork digitally in 2012/13 using adobe's illustrator (shapes) and photoshop (textures and type). going back into the files and hauling something poster-worthy from the wreckage was rewarding. not least because there were some intricate pieces in there that were never used in the record's original packaging and promotional materials. the strange life-form you see here being one of them.

the posters were made using a printer and a scanner. the manual elongation of the images, to us, spoke to the themes jon wanted us to explore.