Visions of War Above and Below

Nice exhibition at the Imperial War Museum contrasting images of war from above and underground.

The theme was a little contrived but it was a reason to show some great images. It also gave a chance to draw in more up to date images and not just to use First and Second World War pictures.

I loved the Richard Carline which greeted you as the first work. It showed Damascus from the air and combined a detailed image with wonderful zig zag fields with wisps of clouds moving across it.  I liked Paule Vezelay’s picture of a barrage balloon in which she say surrealist shapes.

I loved a hang of Francis Dodd and Ravillious pictures of inside submarines together as both artists included a lozenge shaped window one looking in and one out.

Modern works included pictures of drones as birds a good video installation at the end by Bashar Alhroub, a view of a market he had moved as a child in Palestine which was now cover with mesh to keep out things being thrown in from a nearby Jewish settlement. He had filmed the mesh from below as he walked round and this was projected onto the ceiling.

Closes on 25 September 2015

 

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