As Australian troops return to Iraq, artists tackle the aftermath of conflict in a confronting exhibition at Artspace: ‘This project evades contention around the legitimacy of particular wars and debates regarding international intervention in them,’ said the gallery. ‘Instead, On Return and What Remains focuses on narratives lensed through the individual, the sacrifices made and predicaments faced as military personnel return home and attempt to integrate back into civilian life, a life rendered unfamiliar and potentially hostile to them.’
Image credits:
1. Richard Mosse's Killcam (2008); cinematography Trevor Tweeten and digital colour Jerome Thelia, courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery New York
2. Detail of Richard Mosse’s Theatre of War (2009). Image: courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
3. Harun Farocki's 2-channel video Serious Games III: Immersion (2009) corsets of the estate of the artist, Greene Naftali Gallery New York and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.
4. Baden Pailthorpe’s MQ-9 Reaper II (That Others May Die)
5. Richard Mosse's Killcam (2008); cinematography Trevor Tweeten and digital colour Jerome Thelia, courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery New York
