Atticsalt – Offerings
50 Thistle Street North East Lane, Edinburgh, EH2 1DA. 0131 225 2093Offerings
Offerings is an examination of the religious image and its paradoxes as they prevail today. This journey through historic and contemporary imagery is rendered in portraits by Irish artist Ian Healy. His religious upbringing and subsequent suspicion of the role of religion in politics, moral control and propaganda motivated him to create this project.
Healy’s observations of the Pope, Christ, priests played by Hollywood actors and presentday extremist icons like Muhammad Atta, are contextual and ambiguous. He recognises the controversy of his work, but demonstrates the paradox of religious reason and roleplaying with assertion. The aim is an examination of religion and its true uses today in a world where symbolic images in the media are confused with attitudes of hatred, suspicion, political misinformation and extremist comment. Healy wishes to inform the audience of the absurdity and contradiction in the system of belief and faith, whether in ambiguous context or imaginary concepts. Overall, Healy encapsulates the bizarre relationship we have with faith and portrays the conceit of religion with a contemporary tale of dying in the name of religion - the ultimate deception.
31 Jul - 30 Aug
Thurs and Fri 12.30pm - 6pm
Sat 11am - 5pm
or by appointment
Admission Free