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Figures in Henry Curchod’s paintings are almost never alone. Men are locked in a wrestling match, people stamp on strangers, police throw suspects to the ground, parents break down in front of their children, heads lie severed from their bodies. Seen fighting, being bullied, going mad, fleeing from violence or lying limp after an attack, tension erupts that is at times physical, psychological and emotional – or all three at once. In the artist’s latest exhibition, many of these figures seem to reappear across different works. The title, Trouble on the Event Horizon, makes a metaphorical …