Described as ‘Hieronymus Bosch meets Fox News’,artist Pedro Reyes’s installation will be a haunted house taking in gun nuts, genetically modified crops, and climate change and other modern horrorsThe horrors of a haunted house usually conclude once you push open the final set of black,saloon-hinged doors and step back in the fairground. However, the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes hopes his nightmares remain with visitors long after they have left his immersive 2016 Halloween attraction, or opening in current York next month.“Monsters have always been a way to speak about our real fears, says the 44-year-worn. “Zombies are a anxiety of poor people; Karl Marx talked about capital being like a vampire that stalks the living; and Mary Shelley’s Dr Frankenstein is trying to create life, which is precisely what genetic engineers are trying to effect nowadays.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com