My review of Marlene Dumas' current exhibition - Forsaken at the Frith Street Gallery - has been published today by the Church Times.
I conclude the review by saying:
"By beginning with Christ’s cry of forsakenness and using that moment as a metaphor for our common experiences of isolation and loss, these are crucifixions which begin a conversation capable of taking us deeper into both the experience and consequences of Christ’s death. Could they be afforded – and Dumas is among those contemporary artists for whose work collectors pay the highest prices – these crucifixions would speak powerfully within sacred space. There is nevertheless something apposite about the strange company they keep in this exhibition that recalls the company Christ kept in his ministry and on the cross."
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Bruce Cockburn - Pacing The Cage.
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