There are only a few days left to see an exhibition of tapestries at ContiniArtUK gallery in London which is intriguingly entitled The Circumcision of Christ and Modern Oblivion (until 31 October). The works on show are by Rachel Libeskind, the youngest child of the “starchitect” Daniel Libeskind, who describes in an interview with the exhibition curator, Diego Giolitti, how she came across the subject of Christ’s penis. “I discovered the topic [of the circumcision] through the relic of Christ. I was reading these medieval texts that described nuns who were starving themselves to death; I discovered that they were having revelations of Christ’s foreskin appearing in their mouths. Of course, in a modern context, this is pretty racy. So I began to do some research in order to understand the context of the foreskin in the medieval ages,” she says. The tapestries were made using Walmart’s digital-loom printing service. “I don’t really care that they were made at Walmart but when some people find out, I think it’s like a great joke on the American mass market,” Libeskind quips.
