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Truth – and justice – require calm, and yet they only belong to the violent. G. Bataille

For their first exhibition with Blain|Southern, Jake & Dinos Chapman expand on their career-long preoccupation with Francisco Goya’s series of etchings, The Disasters of War. The Disasters of Everyday Life presents, for the first time, their latest body of sculptural work in a dialogue with three full sets of Goya’s prints, each set substantially reworked in a different way by the Chapman brothers.

The Chapmans’ oeuvre represents a prolonged philosophical investigation into the turmoil and violence of …