Artist Bill Viola is set to unveil a new large-scale video installation at St Paul’s Cathedral, depicting Mary holding the body of Jesus after his crucifixion. The piece is considered a companion to his Martyrs series. “One is concerned with birth and the other death; one with comfort and creation, the other with suffering and sacrifice,” Viola says. “If I am successful, the final pieces will function both as aesthetic objects of contemporary art and as practical objects of traditional contemplation and devotion.”
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