JMF Casey’s The Church October 29, 2009

20 Hoxton Square Projects is pleased to present JMF Casey’s The Church.

The Church project consists of a chapel installation created by JMF Casey and commissioned by 20 Hoxton Square Projects. Throughout the duration of the exhibition there will be a series of performances, involving sermons and music in collaboration with writer and academic Emile Bojesen.

The Church uses the aesthetics of religion and ritual to deal with contemporary philosophical issues and ideas of faith. Conceived as a home for a modern mystical sect operating outside the limitations of mainstream “rational” atheism, The Church explores the potential of cross-discipline art practices, conveying a more engaging and poetical approach to existential problems.

JMF Casey’s practice was born from a natural propensity toward images of a morbid, violent or melancholic nature, a tendency that he seeks to understand and enrich through extended research. These investigations have led him towards increasingly ominous and esoteric subject matters, illustrated with imagery drawn from an array of sources, including gothic art, war photography, horror films and pornography. Primarily executed in monochrome scratch painting, his work alludes to poetic, historic or philosophic concepts. Akin to Baudelaire's proclaimed task of extracting "Beauty from Evil", his practice is concerned with the amoral redemptive quality of art.

Exhibition Facts

Opening hours
Tuesday– Friday: 11am-6pm
Thursday: open until 9pm
Saturday: 12pm– 6pm

Performances
Friday 30 October: 8pm
Tuesday 3 November: 3pm
Thursday 5 November 8pm

More performances to be announced - for further information and updates please go to www.20hoxtonsquare.com

Location and Contact Details
Second floor, 20 Hoxton Square Projects, London N1 6NT
Nearest Tube: Old Street
Tel: +44 207 033 0506
www.20hoxtonsquare.com

Forthcoming Exhibition schedule

Future Map ‘09
26 November 2009 – 23 December 2009

Official Website: http://www.20hoxtonsquare.com