Corin Sworn: Silent Sticks review – dramatic return for Martin Guerre

Whitechapel Gallery, London
Max Mara prize-winner Corin Sworn proves a master of disguise in this show about the infamous French impostorCorin Sworn, deserving winner of the latest Max Mara art prize, is fascinated by the strange tale of the French peasant Martin Guerre. The reader may remember the plot, if not the film starring Gerard Depardieu. In 1548, Guerre was accused of stealing grain from his uncle. He ran away to fight in the hundred years war. Years passed and then one day, when even h