Obscenity is made up of photos of fairly well-known people from Spain’s culture industry (Think Rossy de Palma, Alaska), posing with religious paraphenalia like sacraments and rosaries (all of which you can buy over the counter in religious supplies stores). Maybe I’m desensitized by all the raping and killing I get up to, but the photos don’t seem all that shocking to me. Self-consciously shot in a fashion magazine style, aside from some bleeding trackmarks and a lascivious looking gayngel, there’s nothing all that explicit about them. Even so, the exhibition has caused an uproar, with senior polititians like the mayor of Madrid calling for it to be closed, religious groups protesting outside, and then, last Friday, someone threw a firebomb through the window. Due to some miracle it didn’t explode (maybe God is on Bruce’s side after all).
