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From: Bad Category: Art Date: 15 May 2007 Time: 03:08 PM Review: The gallery staff were quick to advise me that the contents of this show may not be suitable for the small child travelling round on my back, due to its sexually explicit video every 4 minutes. The 4 minute gap at least allowed me in without too much social awkwardness, and once within I hid round the corner. The advice only made me more keen for the show where I usually have little time for videos despite my companion who seemed keen to give our presence away once the lights dimmed. The video image in black and white showed an erect penis with shaven balls penetrating a smooth round bottom with a slow even rhythm, meanwhile in the corner of the gallery a man sat and played single notes on the piano. The video image was clean and smooth, the bodies less like bodies now huge scale and perfect, the bum and penis filling the screen. I endured as much as I could before I felt just too conspicuous with my bored child anxious to get going. I was happy to quieten her down with a donut and my self with a coffee, how kind of them to feed the starving arty swarms. http://www.ghw.ch/exhibitions/index.php?showone=1&exhibition_id=482&setloc=LONDON