kennardphillipps - artists peter kennard and cat phillips

Age of Terror : Art since 9/11 EXHIBITION AT IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM

Head Of State

2007

pigment ink on newspapers

showing at the Imperial War Museum’s exhibition Age Of Terror : Art since 9/11

25th Oct 2017 – 28th May 2018

in  good  company  with  Jenny  Holzer,  Ai  Wei  Wei,  Alfredo  Jaar

 

 

 

Head of State 2007

280cm x 300cm pigment ink, on newspaper, on newsprint with UV gel medium topcoat

 

Embedded Art, Akademie Der Kunst, Berlin, Germany, 2009

Control Room 2 6m x 18m oil, acrylic, pigment ink, paper on billboard print

We were commissioned to make Control Room 2 for Embedded Art , a group exhibition dealing with issues of surveillance. We got the background image of a control room printed as three 6 metre by 6 metre street posters on blue back billboard paper.

Pasting them butted up together, directly onto the untreated concrete wall we then collaged about 100 images onto the base paper and scraped into the images using industrial grinders, tearing at the paper and adding oil and acrylic paint. Trying to encapsulate the separate works in the show which dealt with surveillance from the domestic to the military, our work uses images of police action (mainly in Germany where it was made for) to the Allied occupation of Iraq . We show images of state torture adjacent to surveillance photos of western streets. Looking at the work, the audience is watching the watched looking back at them, while all the while being filmed and  projected in another part of the exhibition.

The work was destroyed by the Akademie at the end of the show in March 2009.

 

photos by Kristian Buus

Against ID cards

Control Room

Control Room
270cm x 500cm
Pigment ink, charcoal, acrylic and paper on newspaper
2006

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