National Portrait Gallery's In the flesh provokes yet stimulates

By Sally Pryor
Updated November 9 2014 - 10:33am, first published October 31 2014 - 11:45pm
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<i>In the flesh</i> at the National Portrait Gallery: <i>The Chrysalis</i>, Petrina Hicks, 2010
<i>In the flesh</i> at the National Portrait Gallery: <i>The Chrysalis</i>, Petrina Hicks, 2010

It must surely have been one of the most bizarre toy houses ever constructed – a scale replica of a modern art gallery populated by huge, hyper-real sculptures, teensy miniatures, and strange half-human creatures, sharing space with large-scale drawings and paintings.

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