[Frameworks] Contested Bodies

[Gawthrop, Rob]

Contested Bodies

Murdoch House Redruth Cornwall  UK 19th June 6.30pm

Programmed by Jo Millett and Rob Gawthrop for Gaslighting, an exhibition and programme of events at CMR Gallery in conjunction with the West Cornwall Freedom from Torture supporters group.

Contested Bodies is a programme of short works which include both contemporary and historical artists’ films and video that focus on the question of the body as a contested cultural site for control and spectatorship.  How can images pertaining to or referencing torture be presented without being voyeuristic or making an audience complicit?

Artists have often used their own bodies as sites of experimentation and inquiry, making films and videos that are not always easy to watch. In Desert Storm artist Grace Ndiritu addresses rape as a tool of war, in an uncomfortable and at times intimate video.  Mona Hatoum’s work, So Much I Want to Say shows a female face whose mouth is covered by male hands,  a voice speaks the title, repeatedly.  In her Eyes Skinned, a knife scratches at  the eyes of a hooded face, with images of torture projected intermittently on it.  In Quarantine, Gina Czarnecki challenges the viewers’ reading of pain, pleasure endurance and torture, through the repetitive movements of a dancer. in Sine, Gillian Dyson outlines the territory of a gallery through licking the wall, etching a line to mark a bodily and spatial limit. Both works by Fiona Leus Lambert prompt questions of empathy, through the human face.  In Crying, a woman silently cries in front of the camera and in Faces from Hadamar, a series of still photographs of victims of the Nazi euthanasia programme slowly pass by.

Thanks to the artists and Lux for their support.

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