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An installation by Helen Taylor.
Artist statement: "In London I became interested in cemeteries as repositories of architectural and sociological history. London abounds with statues of voluptuous women representing 'science', 'art', 'justice' etc, all practices which discriminated against women as participants; but which used their eroticised bodies to represent these concepts. In cemeteries their figures (frequently no less erotic) symbolised Faith, Hope, and Charity, which is, at least, ironically apt. There were also angels and weeping women by the ton...". |
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