A moving personal meditation on the defining moments in human life written and performed by Neil Bartlett in a lecture room at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. The Seven Sacraments of Nicolas Poussin was Bartlett's first solo work for four years and Artangel's first commission of a new work using the spoken word. As Bartlett spoke from a text made up of original writing and sections from the Bible and John Donne, leading lighting designer Rick Fisher projected images of the eponymous Sacramants paintings onto the performance while Robin Whitmore, the visual artist with whom Bartlett created A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep in 1988, rendered details from these images onto a blackboard.
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