Granada University closes controversial photography exhibition

Granada University closes controversial photography exhibition
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By h.b. - Feb 16, 2010 - 9:48 AM

One of the images in the exhibition - Photo www.ibercampus.es

The show of 14 large photographs depicted Jesus as the gay son of the prostitute Mary

Granada University, UGR, has closed an exhibition from photographer, Fernando Bayona, saying they have done so for reasons of security.

The show called ‘Circus Christi’ was made up of 14 photographs reproducing the stations of the cross with Jesus characterised as the gay son of a prostitute.

20minutos reports that the exhibition had only attracted 38 visitors over the two days it was opened at the Corrala de Santiago, one of the university residences.

Inspired on the New Testament but with a contemporary setting the images showed prostitutes on the Jaén road in Granada, with one of them the Virgen Mary who meets Joseph when she does a drugs deal.

Deputy Rector of Granada University, Miguel Gómez Oliver, lamented that the name of the University had been involved in ‘injuring the sentiments and convictions of a large number of people’.

The artist says he has received death threats by email and mobile phone.

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