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this reviewer, the show’s most successful piece: “Resurrection” by Rex Slack. The work is a relief, a life-size depiction of a section of wall in a living room or dining room in a house that has, to put it mildly, experienced better days. Old peeling wallpaper surrounds a light switch, below is the residue of the thick velvety sort of wallpaper that used to be used as wainscoting. Off to one side is a familiar plastic icon of Christ on the cross. Embedded in the wainscoting where a piece of plaster has fallen out, leaving a hole in the wall, is a miniature of the house that contains the wall, and in front of this house is a table, on top of which is an empty box that looks as if it had just been opened.
What makes this work of art is that the central symbol of Christ on the cross is clearly placed in the reality in which it has so successfully found a home. One of the reasons for the relative success of Christianity as a religion was the promise it held out for the poor. However miserable your lot in this life, your belief in Christ was your ticket to another reality. A reality in which you could shed your present misery, a reality where no one was poor and everyone equal, a reality, in fact, which was as
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