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Faith
Dean Clough Galleries, Until 22 September - 20 January
Curated for Dean Clough (yes, the place not a person) by erstwhile North West-based artist David Hancock. With Edwin Aitken, Matthew Burrows, Simon Burton, Sarah Doyle, Steve Dutton and Steve Swindells, David Hancock, Thomas Helyar-Carwell, Cathy Ward, and Isabel Young – all exploring faith.
Such explorations venture to twine together parallel arguments: for – faith is a worthy subject given its history, hold on the world; against – after science, why are we bothering to pussyfoot around faith?
A couple of highlights: Dutton and Swindells utilise video and drawing on the ceiling to highlight the use of inversion and reversal to denote evil. Isabel Young twists traditional icon painting to present animals as deities. Sarah Doyle looks at a pop icon – the artist formerly known as ‘the artist formerly known as Prince’. Creationists are satirised by Matthew Burrows, while curator-artist Hancock presents complementary pieces including a contemporary ‘Ophelia’: a beguiling mix of cold photo-realism yet emotive resonance.
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