THE TELEGRAPH
By Lucy Davies
UNITED KINGDOM---There are 788,258 words in the King James Bible. How many people can claim to have read every one of them in a single attempt? Two years ago, over a 12-month period, the artists
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin did just that. The pair began the Holy Bible project by underlining sentences in the text that referred to image-making. “It made me nauseous to be surrounded by so many graphic images,” admits Chanarin. “But also curious. The Bible is so violent, but there’s something acceptable about it. We’re more at ease with violent words than violent pictures.” [
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'Broomberg & Chanarin: Divine Violence' is at Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, from July 19; mostyn.org
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| Chapter and Verse: A spread from Ezekiel in 'Holy Bible' |
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| 'Exodus' from Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s new collage work, 'Holy Bible’ |
