DAN STARLING

Catalogue accompanying Dan Starlings’s exhibition Unsettled Histories. Taking as his starting point Rembrandt’s renowned etching, Christ Crucified Between Two Thieves, Starling created 40 drypoint prints, using just one piece of copper, drawn upon and rubbed flat each time, printed again and again, embellishing the shadows of the erased images to create unstable tableaus. Creating a shifting narrative and unsettling the history outside the walls of Jerusalem, Starling imagined 40 different possibilities history may have taken. The cover references Starling’s single copper plate which he used to portray a multitude of propositions, fictions, literary accounts, and imaginings.