Lesley Guy

The Golden Legend is an exploration of the sacred and the profane. The surfaces of fliers are transformed from objects of disgust into new and ambiguous spaces for reverie. The title is Borrowed from a Magritte painting of baguettes floating past a window, which in turn takes its title from a Medieval biography of the saints. Bread is something associated with the material and immaterial, the body of Christ and Mana from heaven. By isolating the images of these pizzas out of their original context they become cloud-like forms, not unlike automatic drawings, onto which we can project new fantasies. This is interrupted by the abject nature of their junk-food quality. The work is both ridiculous and disgusting.