'WAR' National Juried Exhibition
'WAR', three simple letters inspiring terror. War can take many forms, have many acronyms. The 'Just War', a 'Holy War', a 'War on Terror', 'Going on a Warpath', 'Internal Struggle', 'War against Cancer', 'Sparring Partners', 'Trading Barbs'... War may be external and/or internal, always with an element of tension, of conflict. In past and current exhibitions at HVMOCA, and in our long term installation of Thomas Hirschhorn's 'Laundrette', we have looked at how artists take in and then portray the tensions of conflict. We have exhibited works of veterans returning from Afghanistan, tribal wars in Africa, the bloody split of Yugoslavia, nuclear fears, Holocaust memories. Many of the works expressed conflicts between humans, a clash of cultures, environmental challenges.