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NEAL MUNRO-PEEBLES |
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'Perverted Effigy' is the starting point for
Neal Munro-Peebles 6 week residency in 340 Old Street. Neal will be
developing his installation within the gallery space for the duration of
the month providing an opportunity for a dialogue between artist and
viewer to take place. Prostitutes calling cards found in city centre telephone boxes and the religious effigies of Madonna and Child are the sources for Neal Munro-Peebles palette. In these works Munro-Peebles combines these incongruous images, overlaying them with gold leaf to create ornate miniatures without shame, limitation and credence to their original gravitas. To Munro-Peebles religious icon or porno flick have a similar iconographic power. As vessels for idolatry, fantasy or adoration both act for him as signifiers for female subordination. By masking these images with gold leaf and scratching through to reveal the underlying figures, Munro-Peebles creates a series of muted sub-human forms, which lose their original identity. Where traces of the originals peep through, sexual fantasy and adulation become interlocked. We are at once drawn to and affronted by the delicacy and disfigurement of these distressed transgressive miniatures.
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