BALBUSSO TWINS The Face - The Wall - The Blood - The Mask limited edition screen prints

©2018 Balbusso Twins The Handmaid’s Tale new series of screen print editions The Face, the Mask, the Wall, The Blood Each print was produced by White Duck Printing Studio in 7 colours inc. metallic silver, at 50x70cm, and in an edition of 100+AP’s. Dark City Gallery are currently running a pre-sale on these editions. Visit www.darkcitygallery.com for full details. “In 2012 we were commissioned by The The Folio Society to illustrate the official novel for Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. The book’s beautiful illustration has since received multiple awards. We were so moved and artistically inspired by the story, we went on to create a series of four posters, The Wall, The Mask, The Blood and The Face. “Stylistically influenced by Italian Futurism and Russian Constructivism, the series is centred on the woman's body; the Handmaid’s are empty objects, with no soul. Like clones, the women are emptied of their personality and identity. “A minimalist colour palette was used to communicate the psychological state of suffering, slavery, emptiness, and obsession: red, black, white and silver. The eyes (which feature prominently in all four pieces) symbolise the Republic of Gilead, the dictatorship, which owns and controls the woman.”