Aftermath I & II
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Shepherdson, K. 2014. Aftermath I & II. Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury 11 Nov - 17 Dec 2014
Creators | Shepherdson, K. |
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Description | Aftermath I (2014) 9 x 150mm x 150mm Photographic Emulsion Lifts “The wounds are horrible, and I for one will be against wars in the future, you have no right to ask men to endure such suffering.” (Henry Tonks, 1915) Using the materiality of photographic emulsion lifts and drawing upon the polemical found images in Ernst Friedrich’s 1924 Krieg dem Kriege these nine reappropriated images unflinchingly articulate the dreadful facial injury endured in WWI battle. Aftermath II (2014) 9 x 150mm x 150mm Photographic Emulsion Lifts Using the materiality of photographic emulsion lifts these nine collated images fragment the war memorial located at Shepherdson’s hometown of Broadstairs in Kent. The artist spent much time at the memorial, quietly observing how its presence has become so (overly) familiar that, outside of Remembrance Sunday, the site represents little more than overlooked street furniture. Yet the memorial’s original relief work is highly complex, depicting not only soldiers as active fighters, but also as defeated, injured and exhausted men. Their nationality is to the modern eye at least, strikingly ambiguous and between the groupings of men a centrally placed crucifixion and pietà can be seen. The slow production of emulsion lifts, enables Shepherdson to isolate and significantly enlarge the individuals within the scene and through this process each figure’s plight is amplified and the pathos of post war memorialisation articulated. |
Date | 2014 |
Exhibition title | Remembering, We Forget |
Related URL | http://karenshepherdson.com/karenshepherdson.com/news/Entries/2014/11/11_Aftermath_I_%26_II.html |
http://karenshepherdson.com/karenshepherdson.com/writings_of_others.html | |
http://sardonicrat.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/k-j-shepherdsons-polaroid-lifts-of-the-broadstairs-war-memorial/ | |
https://vimeo.com/111915214 | |
http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/sidney-cooper/exhibition/current.asp | |
Funder | Arts Council England |
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Deposited | 17 Dec 2014 |
ISBN | 9781909067325 |
Publication dates | |
11 Nov 2014 |
https://repository.canterbury.ac.uk/item/872vv/aftermath-i-ii
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