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relic
(redirected from Sacred relic)

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See: holdover, reminder, token


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Hans-Peter Feldmann's Die Toten (The Dead), 1998, was, perhaps in response to the media frenzy, given a central place in the exhibition--indeed it was presented like a sacred relic in its own white shrine at the start of the show--and unavoidably transformed into a monument of reconciliation.
The first revolves around the struggle for a sacred relic and-the Reverend Taylor's psychiatrist can make of this what he will-a wicked vicar's lust for world domination; the second deals with the coming of a comet that may be the deeply unpleasant "Wormwood" prophesied in one of the Book of Revelation's gloomier passages.
The sacred relic is mounted on a podium and covered by a glass cage, echoing the bell-jar like form of the chapel itself.
 
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