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If we learn anything in life (let alone the last couple of years), it’s that real smack-you-in-the-guts horror is a lot closer to home than we might realise. Somerset House’s new show ‘The Horror Show!: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain’ is testament to this. This major exhibition explores how horror has informed the last 50 years of creative rebellion, looking beyond horror as a genre, instead seeing how its been a reaction and provocation to the country’s troubling times.
Head along to see the last five decades of modern British history recast as terrifying tales and art, from the disruption of 1970s punk to the revolutionary potential of modern witchcraft. It’s aim is to show how looking at the more supernatural and ghoulish sides of life can actually help us understand it more deeply.
The show will pack in over 200 artworks and culturally significant objects including work from Pam Hogg, Noel Fielding, Don Letts, Poly Styrene, Derek Jarman, Cornelia Parker, Reece Sheersmith, David Shrigley, Rachel Whiteread, Juno Calypso and Leonora Carrington.