Genesis & Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge: Life as a Cheap Suitcase (Pandrogeny & A Search For Unified Identity)
Summerhall, Edinburgh Four stars From COUM Transmissions to Throbbing Gristle and beyond, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge was the ultimate self-created deity. So when he and partner Lady Jaye embarked on their Pandrogyny project in a bid to look identical to each other, it was the ultimate love story. This first UK show since 2003, the same year the pair celebrated Valentine's Day by having identical breast implants, is part document of the ongoing series of body modifications the pair underwent, part homage to Lady Jaye, whose 'body dropped' in 2007. The scars are there still in this in-the-raw assortment of imagery that charts their quest for two to become one, both in large-scale light-box images that provides an entry into their special world, and in elaborately framed photographs of them post-op. Elsewhere, coyote-head installations, religious iconography and royal family subverting collages expose lives in permanent opposition. After such extreme measures, however, it'