Exhibition review Lindsey Mendick: SH*TFACED; Grayson Perry: Smash Hits
Jupiter Artland; National Galleries of Scotland: Royal Academy

IT’S not every art exhibition that begins with a heath warning. But with Lindsey Mendick’s new “confessional show,” the clue is in the name. A rather stylish plaque tells us that the venue “condones a sensible approach to the use of alcohol,” warning that the “scenes of binge drinking” depicted in SH*TFACED could be “challenging.”

This is one of several shows at this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival which grapple with shame, repression and defiance. 

Mendick’s exhibition spans across three spaces within Jupiter Artland, a private sculpture park and contemporary art gallery on the estate of a Jacobean country house in Kirknewton, West Lothian. Its first rooms take the form of a nightclub and adjoining toilets. Distorted chequered walls and a soundtrack of club sounds disorientate us before we are confronted with an expansive and intricate scale model of the club we believe we are already within.