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‘What do you believe in?’ is the question put to twenty people living in and around Glasgow. Each interviewee nominates the next person to be interviewed, thereby forming a chain of questions and answers across a range of social and spiritual backgrounds. Conversing with this network Sarah Tripp embarks on a pilgrimage from one interview to the next. This search for meaning plays out in the homes or workplaces of the interviewees, ranging from a group of Carmelite sisters to a comprehensive school’s religious education teacher.

Anti-Prophet was launched at an exhibition by the same name at the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow) alongside a videotheque of documentaries and was screened as part of Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Democracy! at the Royal College of Art, London, and by Marres Art Centre, Maastricht.

Anti-Prophet was developed from a photographic research project entitled, Seeking nothing you gain all that was supported by the Scottish Arts Council and the Arts Trust of Scotland. The photographs documented research visits to a diverse range of spiritual communities.

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The most compelling images in Anti-Prophet are the faces of the interviewees during the moments of hesitation before they answer. In these moments we discern the degree of difficulty or pleasure with which they will answer the question.

Anti-Prophet

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