How do ideas rooted in horror have influenced the last 50 years of creativity rebellion?
Featuring over 200 artworks and culturally significant objects, this show tells a story of turbulence, unease and creative revolution at the heart of the British cultural psyche in three acts: Monster, Ghost and Witch.
![Penny Slinger, Penny Red Dakini, 2019 © Penny Slinger. Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery.](https://www.tattoolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/3.-Penny-Slinger-Penny-Red-Dakini-2019-Courtesy-of-Richard-Saltoun-Gallery-Copyright-the-Artist.jpg)
![Jamie Reid, Monster On a Nice Roof, 1972. © Jamie Reid. Courtesy of John Marchant Gallery.](https://www.tattoolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/8.-Jamie-Reid-Monster-On-a-Nice-Roof-1972.-c-Jamie-Reid.-Courtesy-of-John-Marchant-Gallery-.jpg)
![Jake & Dinos Chapman, Return of the Repressed³, 1997 2007, 2007. © Jake and Dinos Chapman.](https://www.tattoolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/11.-Jake-and-Dinos-Chapman-Return-of-the-Repressed3-1997-2007.jpg)
Each act interprets a specific era through the lens of a classic horror archetype in a series of thematically linked contemporary and new works.
![The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain at Somerset House, London 2022. Image by Stephen Chung for Somerset House](https://www.tattoolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/9.-The-Horror-Show-A-Twisted-Tale-of-Modern-Britain-at-Somerset-House-London-2022.-Image-by-Stephen-Chung-for-Somerset-House.jpg)
Each of the exhibition acts opens with a constellation of talismanic objects. These cabinets of curiosities speak to significant cultural shifts and anxieties in each era while invoking a haunting from the counter-cultural voices in recent British history.
![Juno Calypso, A Dream in Green, 2015. © Juno Calypso. Courtesy of the artist](https://www.tattoolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/16-Juno-Calypso-A-Dream-in-Green-2015.-©-Juno-Calypso.-Courtesy-of-the-artist.jpg)
The show looks beyond horror as a genre, instead taking it as a reaction and provocation to our most troubling times.
![The Horror Show!í: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britainí at Somerset House, London, UK](https://www.tattoolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/7.-The-Horror-Show-A-Twisted-Tale-of-Modern-Britain-at-Somerset-House-London-2022.-Image-by-Stephen-Chung-for-Somerset-House.jpg)
A heady ride through the disruption of 1970s punk to the revolutionary potential of modern witchcraft, showing how the anarchic alchemy of horror – its subversion, transgression and the supernatural – can make sense of the world around us. Horror becomes the voice of our fears and gives us the tools to store them down and imagine a radically different future.
![Anna Bunting-Branch, W.I.T.C.H. (“We Invoke the Culture of Heretics”), 2015. © Anna Bunting-Branch.](https://www.tattoolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/13-Anna-Bunting-Branch-W.I.T.C.H.-We-Invoke-the-Culture-of-Heretics-2015-.-©-Anna-Bunting-Branch.jpg)
Monster, Ghost and Witch culminate in immersive installations, combining newly commissioned work, large scale sculpture, fashion and sound installations, with each chapter signed off with a neon text.
Untile February 19, 2023
Somerset House, London
#TheHorrorShow @somersethouse
More info HERE