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Chris Ofili’s ‘The Holy Virgin Mary’

Chris Ofili’s ‘The Holy Virgin Mary’

Saoirse Akhtar-Farren reflects on Manchester born Chris Ofili’s ‘The Holy Virgin Mary’, which featured in Charles Saatchi’s exhibition ‘Sensation’ in 1997, in relation to challenging the nature of art and conventional reverence associated with religious imagery.