Living not at home

Almost every one of Koldo Chamorro's photos in this exhibition includes a brace of crucifixes, a trio, more. The exhibition is called O Santo Cristo Ibérico (The Holy Christ of the Miracles in Iberia) and the photos come from Chamorro's twenty-six-year documentation of religious practice in Spain and Portugal.   Chamorro sticks to his brief: as well as crucifixes, from handheld to full-size, we get tunics, pilgrims, churches, hearses, bell towers, priests. Religion is present and potent but the everyday or the incidental seeps into every scene. While one figure is absorbed in their devotional practice another figure is looking on, spectating, or is thinking about something else entirely, like the executioner's horse does in W H Auden's poem Musée des Beaux Arts . Take the photo titled Navarra (undated): it shows a track in front of a rural building. In the midground a smiling man in a cap and work gloves leans on a low wall. A cement mixer beside him suggests it's ...