Interventions

GRACE GRAUPE-PILLARD
"INTERVENTIONS" -- PHOTOGRAPHS/PROJECTIONS
SCORE and Technical: DEB KING
In 2003, shortly after the onset of the Iraq War, Grace Graupe-Pillard began working on a series of photographs entitled INTERVENTIONS focusing on the horror and human cost of wars being fought in far-off places. These photographs depict images of soldiers, car-bombings, ruins, explosions, and refugees, which are digitally embedded into the familiar streets and parks of New York City, Baltimore and the New Jersey wetlands. Using the computer and digital filters, the implanted imagery often borders on the abstract, with heightened color and kaleidoscopic patterns portraying the ordinariness of our everyday reality blown apart. INTERVENTIONS attempts to make visually evident the ongoing tragic repercussions of war in our own backyard, as well as the equally powerful manipulation of the electorate through the "politics of fear."

A LARGER version of the exhibition is on-line: http://markszine.com/601/ggp/ggpind.htm

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Iraq
• war
• home
• explosions
• bombs
• refugees
• mideast
• bush
• politics
• of
• fear

[ratdoghippy]

The bottom line is simple, We must fight our enemies they do want to kill us, I will fight when called. Because I refuse to give into terrorist.

But Invading Iraq, that was giving into Osoma demands to remove our troops from Saudi Soil.

We have no bizness in Iraq! We should have invaded the kings castle in Saudi Arabia and arrested Osama' fallow rs from with in. We should have used our forces in Afghanistan

at put an end to this 5 years ago.

8 years Osoma stil free, Mr Xpres. Bush you fault!

[lucifersangel]

it's pretty interesting seeing this...and knowing i might be going there in a few years...

[Psdubow]

Very unique and interesting. Very relevant to today's issues.

[rEdelhauser]

At a time when very few other major artist are addressing the effects of war on the world's people and our own rights it's good to see this work