Seven Deadly Sins: GLUTTONY

Barbara Kruger
Part of Seven Deadly Sins
Presented by Museum of Religious Art, Lemvig

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5/2 – 7/4:
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8/4 – 28/5:
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With the deadly sin, Gluttony, as a starting point, renowned American artist, Barbara Kruger, creates a special site-specific installation for the Museum of Religious Art. During the Middle Ages the Seven Deadly Sins were considered vices, and Gluttony was connected with excessive eating and drinking.

Wasteful people allowed themselves to consume without thinking of satiety. From a contemporary point of view Kruger rethinks Gluttony with consumerism as a central theme. 

Kruger's use of the visual language of graphic texts, photography, pictures and the direct address tactics of advertising offers a critical reflection on cultural and social identity, and on how they are formed and demonstrated through consumption.