Third Annual National Juried Exhibition: WAR
THIRD ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION: WAR
Exhibition opening Jan. 27, 2024.
'WAR', three simple letters that inspire terror. War can take many forms and many acronyms. The 'Just War', the 'Holy War', the 'War on Terror', 'Going on a Warpath', 'Internal Struggle', 'War against Cancer', 'Sparring Partners', 'Trading Barbs'...War can be external and/or internal, but always with an element of tension, of conflict. In past and current exhibitions at HVMOCA, and as an ongoing installation of Thomas Hirschhorn's 'Laundrette', we have looked at how artists take in and then portray the tensions of war. We have exhibited works by vets returning from Afghanistan, survivors of Communist dictatorships and its excesses, tribal wars in Africa and Holocaust memories. Many of the works express conflicts between humans, their environment and their cultures. As artists, how can you address this overarching topic, bring attention to the varied innuendos, personal, political, real and imagined? It can be through painting, installation, photography and video, whatever your choice of platform. WAR artwork will also be the inspiration for 2024 Writing the Walls performances, the program now in its 18th iteration, in the Studio Theatre in Exile Black Box at HVMOCA.