we are five minutes from the dissidents cemetery. we have a mosque at one end, an anglican church at the other end, the opium den that oscar wilde went to was on brick lane, thejewish all on brick lane. extraordinary world. i want to come back to what you said, gilbert, about the journey. and you always place yourselves in the centre of this journey you ve made, in the course of 50 years of creativity. if we were looking at some of your earlier works, on bbc television, we wouldn t be able to show some of the words and images, because over the years, and people remember you for it, in the 70s, 80s, you focused a lot on taboo subjects. you know, i m thinking of the human body all of it, all of the orifices, all of the bodily fluids, of the faeces, the urine, the genitalia all in different ways were taboos that you put front and centre in your artwork. have you stopped doing that?
gilbert and george, welcome, both of you, to hardtalk. thanks very much. very kind. very nice. we re sitting in this gallery space. this is your latest exhibition. it s called new normal pictures. is this your response to what the world has been through in the last year and more? that is, the covid pandemic and lockdown? no, not at all. the title of the show and the pictures predates the pandemic. we created the pictures before the pandemic. we only called it new normal because we were so interested that people in england use the term what s the term they always use, gilbert? existentialism. and we wanted to find an english word for that, and so normalfor us would be the. so, this new normal of yours predates everything that s happened with the pandemic? yes, yes. all the design of all aspects of it. everything was ready. ..were done before the pandemic. but nonetheless, as i understand it, a lot of the composition, the working and you do a lot of work on your pictures to bring
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