Artiface of Eternity by Nick Waplington

Private view Thursday 5th July, 6.30pm to 9pm

This is a fantastic new art exhibition featuring internationally renowned photographer and is a must see visit in Shoreditch.
Over the last few years Nick Waplington has become increasingly interested in the Byzantine icons of the Christian quarter of Jerusalem, where he has been living. He has spent many hours in the Church of Holy Sepulchre where icons of saints and martyrs surround the alleged tomb of Christ. This has been the inspiration for his thinking about the power of images – and in particular the nature of this power to transcend the merely aesthetic but affect both body and soul. It is the power that opponents of icons, the iconoclasts, feared.

The images in these paintings are both reverential and rapid, bearing traces of religious seriousness, sensual pleasure, and secular disposability. In blurring the devotional image and the secular pornographic image, these images also bear within them the seeds of their own ecstatic destruction.