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The exhibition, dubbed "The Most Popular Art Exhibition
Ever!" will run at London's Serpentine gallery until September.
Much of the artwork addresses the controversy around Britain's
impending departure from the European Union, known as Brexit,
after Britons voted to leave in June 2016.
"It was a point when there was a kind of cultural divide in the
country and what the referendum did," Perry told Reuters.
"It presented a yes-no, black-and-white question at just the
right moment in our society when there was unacknowledged
grievances by a large section of society and they hung those on
the EU debate."
The exhibition features tapestries and sculpture, as well as
Perry's trademark provocative pottery.
Two ceramic vases, decorated with images crowd-sourced from
"Leave" and "Remain" voters via social media, are the keystone
of the show.
As a reminder of the domestic political division, Perry, who
describes himself as a "gnarled 57-year-old transvestite artist"
on his Twitter page, has placed "Our Mother", a statue of a
refugee, in between the vases.
Perry won the Turner Prize, a prestigious British visual arts
award that helped to put artists including Damien Hirst and
Tracy Emin on the map, in 2003. In addition to his visual art,
he has also produced television documentaries in recent years.
(Writing by Mark Hanrahan; Editing by Edmund Blair)
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