Just world order

ArtSway presents Just world order, a curated group exhibition that explores ideas of control, identity and anxiety as it affects modern society. Featuring new work by Dunhill & O’Brien, Rachel Garfield, Charlotte Ginsborg, Jane Grant, Ansel Krut, Kim Noble and Tim Simmons, the exhibition will embrace theories of displacement and disorientation, both physical and mental (the latter relected in the deliberately ambiguous title Just world order) and will focus upon notions of control by authority, as well as aspiration and belonging in human endeavour.

There is an unspoken aura of anxiousness that permeates modern society: newspaper headlines and 24 hour TV news bulletins report on what appears to be an almost constant, but unspecific, terrorist threat, while governments issue ever-escalating warning levels, all the time encouraging vigilance and heightened individual awareness. However, within the context of the attacks on the World Trade Centre, and the London Tube bombings, there are whispered conspiracies that the US government (particularly with the PATRIOT Act) and the British government, are engineering a feeling of fear within the general populace to enable increased control of their citizens.

Just world order is an exhibition of works by 8 artists (2 working in collaboration) in a variety of media, expressing ideas of angst in modern living and the disquiet we often in feel in attempting to find our place in society. Within the context of the exhibition there will be no distinct conclusion, but rather an opportunity for discussion within the gallery setting. In essence, the gallery will become a place for the visitor to explore their thoughts with regards to modern living; a chance to play out fears, and potentially excise them.

To accompany Just world order, a small publication with critical text by ArtSway Curator Peter Bonnell is being produced which will be available from July 12 2008.

Just world order
Kurator: Peter Bonnell

Künstler: Dunhill & O´Brien, Rachel Garfield, Charlotte Ginsborg, Jane Grant, Ansel Krut, Kim Noble, Tim Simmons