Dr Darren Ambrose's talk entitled 'Bacon's Corpus' was part of a day-long event, 'Bacon, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis', held at King’s College London on 7th September 2023. The event was a collaboration between the Estate of Francis Bacon and KCL’s Centre for Philosophy and Art. The talk is introduced by event chair Dr Ben Ware, KCL.
Ambrose is an independent scholar and artist. In this talk, he looks at Bacon's art in relation to the ideas of French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. Ambrose's title 'Bacon's Corpus' references Nancy's work Corpus (Paris: Métailié, 1992; English translation: New York: Fordham University Press, 2008).