Preview: TBC
Dates: 3rd – 19th June '08
Times: Abbey visitor hours
Location: Bath Abbey
Artists: Terry Flaxton
Curator: Terry Flaxton
Website: www.inotherpeoplesskins.com
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At the heart of Bath Abbey you find a table set for supper. There are twelve virtual diner, projected images which play upon the surface of the table. You are invited to take a place at the table, and to inhabit for a moment Other People’s Skins. The video loop begins with a Western meal, then changes progressively into Indian, Chinese and Nigerian meals – a s well as a meal which evokes the Last Supper. The food on the table, the plates and dishes, the colour of the hands and arms, the clothing and jewellery, transport the visitor into different cultures in order to explore the spiritual possibilities of the meal table.

In Other People’s Skins takes its inspiration from Leonardo’s Last Supper. Encompassing cultures from across the world, it takes the meal table as the site of human communication.