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From: jp Category: Art Date: 30 April 2009 Time: 07:49 AM Review: http://22portseaplace.com/ faith in fakes is a funny exhibition in an odd place full of old paintings. harris shows signatures of famous artists on unopened atlantis canvases, and Jesus pictures painted in red wine (whic are successfully sacred and profane). These hang amongst 100s of odd antique shop paintings, fakes, and a ragbag of old looking art. It's a good place for this work. Harris's work ethic, he likes meticulous painting is always a contrast to his love of mischief and tomfoollery. He shows a video of a psychic advising him what Francis Bacon wants him to paint, but the result is an arresting video and a stiff painting. You wonder what Mr Harris would do if he was more irreverent with the acutal paint, not the framework.