Dear Shaded Viewers,
An intimate view into the opening of Carrion, a survey of the photographic Polaroid works of the late U.S. artist Dash Snow (1981–2009), presented by Morán Morán and curated by Jeppe Ugelving.
Taking its title from Baudelaire’s macabre poem, Carrion revisits Dash Snow’s raw and poetic view of urban life. Through his Polaroids, we move between streets, bars, hotel rooms, rooftops, and catacombs; fragments of a city and a soul. His work feels both sacred and profane, intimate yet distant.
Like Baudelaire, Snow documented beauty in decay, creating his own mythology of human experience. A visual dictionary of living hieroglyphs for a restless age.
Carrion reveals Snow not simply as a social presence, but as a true fin-de-siècle romantic, one who staged the world around him with instinctive drama, untouched by the sentimentality of fiction.
Alors, ô ma beauté! dites à la vermine
Qui vous mangera de baisers,
Que j’ai gardé la forme et l’essence divine
De mes amours décomposés!
—Charles Baudelaire
Dash Snow: Carrion
Curated by Jeppe Ugelvig
October 21 – November 29, 2025
Morán Morán Gallery (5 Rue Saint-Gilles 75003 Paris)
Beauty in decay.
Yours digitally,
Pedro Guez
