This October, The Dazed Gallery has asked some of the most exciting contemporary artists working today to explore the notion of apocalypse in a uniquely challenging group show. With the current hypocritical trend in the west of endorsing military enforced "regime change" in oil rich countries crippled by sanctions, while paying mere lip service to democratic ideals, you could be forgiven for thinking that sooner or later some kind of huge global stand-off is somewhat inevitable. The notion of encroaching cataclysm is apparent in almost every theological (and thereby political) construct and is regularly called upon by propagandists to give the most mendacious political maneuvering a sense of divine purpose. This exhibition will include works created by artists such as Sarah Maple, Robert Montgomery, David Fryer, Luke Drozd, Rachel Wilberforce, Leo Todd, Valerio Di Lucente, Louisa Lau, Sarah Bargieala, Ben Freeman and Giuseppe Di Bella.
All of the artists involved responded to the following questions – if there truly was a war to end all wars what would it be like and how would it manifest itself? Would its outcome be positive or negative? Would it bring absolute destruction or rebirth and renewal? In response Giuseppe Di Bella will be presenting stamps portraying human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib, the dissemination of which have earned him the dubious honour of being investigated by the FBI, Sarah Maple will be presenting her no doubt soon to be iconic self-portrait "I Heart Jihad", Ben Freeman will be showing his idyllic countryside shots of mass grave sites in Serbia and our very own Robert Montgomery will be showing works which play on notions of poetic melancholia and nuclear destruction.
For more details please contact johnpaul@dazedgroup.com
