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Engaged in a virulently pessimistic philosophical program articulated through the medium of contemporary art, Jake & Dinos Chapman produce works in a variety of media that deploy humour and a sophisticated and perverse play with contemporary semiotics that serve to undercut and satirise many of the unthinking belief that animate contemporary liberal culture - from assumptions about the enlightened and enlightening nature of art, to faith in the progressive nature of contemporary, secular societies.

The skill of their practice in manipulating the basic semiotics of contemporary culture is …