Painted onto the pristine white wall of Shane Cotton’s latest exhibition Oblique Narratives is a disembodied Maori head. The head stares out from one eye; its second eye and mouth are blocked by two bright orange rectangles. The effect – a face rendered in dripping black paint, sliced by shapes that act as lurid reminders of modernity – is shocking.
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