Immediately after the crime scene tape had been removed from the coral stone steps of the Versace mansion, but before the steps were blanketed with roses, teddy bears and gushing eulogies, a fan rushed over with a Versace ad torn from a copy of Vogue magazine and started mopping up Versace’s blood with it to make a kind of souvenir. That decision must have been made very quickly, to use an image printed on glossy non-absorbent Vogue paper to mop up the still wet blood, still not congealed, but after his body had been taken away, but before it dried in the mid July Florida sunshine, and still not soaked into the porous surface of the coral stone steps of his mansion.

- From the performance ‘Predator Bleached Versace’, Sam Keogh, 2016.

For the Rijks OPEN 2016, Keogh presented ‘Predator Bleached Vercace’, and installation of sculpture, drawing, garments and performance which knots together three disparate themes; coral bleaching, the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace, and a critique of the 1987 sci-fi action horror movie ‘Predator’.