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Wednesday 23 March 2022

Artlyst - Ali Cherri: Artist in Residence National Gallery

My latest review for Artlyst is of Ali Cherri's If you prick us, do we not bleed? installation at the National Gallery:

'His installations, therefore, open up a conversation about the Gallery’s Collection, which, by spanning five centuries of Western European painting, includes a large proportion of paintings that treat specifically Christian themes and subject matter. Three of the five damaged paintings are among that group within the Collection, whilst those surrounding Cherri’s vitrines in the Sainsbury wing are predominantly so. At the centre of the Christian faith and its images is the violence of the crucifixion, alongside that inflicted on martyrs following in the footsteps of Christ. In the context of this exhibition, then, there is a discussion to be had about the depiction of violence within the Collection and within Christianity, together with explorations of the extent to which Christ’s passion seeks to unmask systems of violence and the extent to which the Church has been complicit in such systems.'

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