Re-imagining war beyond its exceptionality, locating it in spaces where it would be least expected.

Artists from Goya to Dix have variously revealed the horrors of war and its imprint upon the body and the body politic. Working primarily with photography, film and multi-media installations, the artists in this exhibition have direct experience of the zones of conflict and war, from Iraq, to India, to Bangladesh, to Afghanistan, and ‘back home’ where the traces of war are revealed again.

The exhibition will create a space for an exploratory dialogue between academic research into the subject of war and its intersection with the everyday, as well as artists’ encounters with war and the conceptual schema that render it both comprehensible and strange.