Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin / Divine Violence / 2015

Goodman Gallery Cape Town 5 March – 11 April 2015

Goodman Gallery presents Divine Violence by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, recipients of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013 for their publication War Primer 2, and the International Centre for Photography Infinity Award 2014 for their publication Holy Bible.

While visiting the Bertolt Brecht archives in Berlin, Broomberg & Chanarin discovered a remarkable artefact: Brecht’s personal bible. The object caught their attention because it had a photograph of a racing car stuck to the cover. Inside the pages they discovered that the German playwright had used his bible as a notebook; pasting in images, underlining phrases and making notes in the columns.