Jack the Ladder is a 21 photograph series displayed in a ladder shape (a vertical ladder with 7 rungs over 3.5 metres high). The portrait of a young Chinese woman Echo-Ho is depicted in fragmented images. Apart from wearing black tights, she is naked and photographed against a pre-dominantly red-coloured, oriental carpet. She has been painting her fingernails. There are runs in her nylons (ladders) stopped with drops of red nail varnish, which may, on the other hand, be drops of blood. In some of the photos piles of steel nails can be seen, in others broken glass and a set of five antique English fruit knives with pearl handles.

Jack the Ladder commemorates the victims of racial and sexual intolerance present and past: the London nail bomb attacks of 1999 and the 'Jack the Ripper' killings a hundred years earlier.

Tanya Ury