Side Gallery
Solo Exhibition – Homeland/Marine Wedding
July 4 2009 – August 22, 2009
Newcastle, England
What words can be said about 911 that haven’t been said. What responses can be considered that haven’t been given. For many, looking back at 911 is time wasted. We were told who did it, we were told who wreaked the violence, and we were told it required a mission to respond to it. So, why reflect given such certainties?
Well, because there are some that doubt, including me! Many people, such as thosed affiliated or sympathetic to the so called ‘911 Truth Movement’, doubt the collective global reactions, responses and rationales since 911. And many are uneasy with the explosive debris that still continues to fall. One such doubter is Nina Berman.
Nina, a photographer from New York, has observed, framed and captured arresting images of a culture in transition. A transition galvanised by the power of paranoia. Not a paranoia born from the collective, but from the powerful few. A paranoia promoted amongst the people, paradoxically by those duty bound to protect the people. Nina’s recent photographic exhibition at Newcastle’s Side Gallery, gave us all an insight into the blind passion which paranoia can incite.
‘Homeland’ and ‘Marine Wedding’ were the descriptive terms Nina used. Terms describing a series of images that document the contrast between a public’s naive passion for militainment and its associated fantasy, with the private pain of horrific disfigurement, lost love, and the brutal social isolation that the reality of war engenders.
These images are powerful. I only hope they trigger their viewer to question the purpose and morality of war and the culture it creates, then reflect on the nature of those powerful people that promote and profit from it. An exhibition, that was truly a spectacle; a transformation for both subjects and viewers.
References:
http://www.ninaberman.com
http://www.1854.eu/2008/09/nina_bermans_homeland_usa_seri.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Truth_movement
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article1294008.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3886348.ece
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=437&type=gallery&Itemid=
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Creating Civic Paranoia
Solo Exhibition – Homeland/Marine Wedding
July 4 2009 – August 22, 2009
Newcastle, England
What words can be said about 911 that haven’t been said. What responses can be considered that haven’t been given. For many, looking back at 911 is time wasted. We were told who did it, we were told who wreaked the violence, and we were told it required a mission to respond to it. So, why reflect given such certainties?
Well, because there are some that doubt, including me! Many people, such as thosed affiliated or sympathetic to the so called ‘911 Truth Movement’, doubt the collective global reactions, responses and rationales since 911. And many are uneasy with the explosive debris that still continues to fall. One such doubter is Nina Berman.
Nina, a photographer from New York, has observed, framed and captured arresting images of a culture in transition. A transition galvanised by the power of paranoia. Not a paranoia born from the collective, but from the powerful few. A paranoia promoted amongst the people, paradoxically by those duty bound to protect the people. Nina’s recent photographic exhibition at Newcastle’s Side Gallery, gave us all an insight into the blind passion which paranoia can incite.
‘Homeland’ and ‘Marine Wedding’ were the descriptive terms Nina used. Terms describing a series of images that document the contrast between a public’s naive passion for militainment and its associated fantasy, with the private pain of horrific disfigurement, lost love, and the brutal social isolation that the reality of war engenders.
These images are powerful. I only hope they trigger their viewer to question the purpose and morality of war and the culture it creates, then reflect on the nature of those powerful people that promote and profit from it. An exhibition, that was truly a spectacle; a transformation for both subjects and viewers.
References:
http://www.ninaberman.com
http://www.1854.eu/2008/09/nina_bermans_homeland_usa_seri.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Truth_movement
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article1294008.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3886348.ece
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=437&type=gallery&Itemid=
No related posts.