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"I don't care if people like or dislike my work; I just want them to engage"

October 13, 2016 11:08
Rachel Libeskind with two of her tapestries.

ByCharlotte Oliver, Charlotte Oliver

3 min read

"I always say that I don't care if people like or dislike my work; I just want them to engage."

So says Rachel Libeskind, the 27-year-old American artist who this week launched her first solo exhibition in the UK, at Contini Art in central London. And she means it, too, if the title of her show is any indication: The Circumcision of Christ and Modern Oblivion.

"It's a topic that I discovered years ago, while studying at Harvard. Well, actually, it discovered me," Libeskind explains.

"I was given this vita [biography] of a saint's life. It was fairly boring, then all of a sudden this saint described an ecstatic revelation in which the foreskin of Christ appeared in her mouth."