Questions of Faith

Questions of Faith gathers three years of paintings and sculpture by the Belgrade-born, London-based artist Djordje Ozbolt, whose deadpan humor and magpie borrowings from folk art, art history, and popular imagery unsettle any single reading of belief, ritual, or authority.

Published by Hauser & Wirth to accompany exhibitions at the Holburne Museum in Bath and the gallery's Somerset space, the book reproduces 169 color and 28 black-and-white images across 160 pages, tracing how Ozbolt layers art-historical quotation, invented iconography, and slapstick wit into paintings and carved or cast sculptures that read as artifacts of an imagined culture. An essay by ArtReview International Editor Oliver Basciano situates the work within Ozbolt's broader interrogation of history, politics, and travel.

Ozbolt studied at the Slade School of Fine Art after training in Belgrade, and has exhibited internationally since the early 2000s, developing a body of painting and sculpture that treats museums, myth, and tourist souvenirs as equally suspect sources of meaning; Questions of Faith stands as one of the fullest surveys of that practice to date.