A new series of disturbing images by Andres Serrano goes on show at the Collection Lambert in Avignon on 4 July (until 25 September). Torture features more than 40 volunteers being degraded and shackled, with the US artist assuming the role of torturer. The series was initiated and produced by a/political, a London-based non-profit; Serrano took the photographs at its Foundry space in the French town of Maubourguet. Serrano will also unveil his portraits of hooded men, a group of political prisoners who underwent “deep interrogation” under the British government’s internment programme in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s. For their portraits, some of the men stripped and wore hoods for the first time since their ordeal. A selection of plates from Francisco Goya’s series The Disasters of War (1810-20), on loan from Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Germany, also feature in the Avignon exhibition. Meanwhile, five small-scale images from Serrano’s Torture series are at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, in Brussels (until 21 August).
