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CHILD SOLDIERS Exhibition
2010
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1月4日(月)から1月16日(土)
9時〜19時 |
| 場 所 |
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汐留メディアタワー3階 ギャラリーウオーク
（新交通ゆりかもめ汐留駅改札口左手すぐそば） |
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会期中無休 入場無料
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| Exhibition Synopsis |
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War and weapons are some
of the most common photographs seen today.
Yet they are not the ones saved to our hard-drives,
or decorating the walls of our homes. Mostly,
they appear in the more popular viral fashion,
as the image fodder of digital media, TV
news and film. Of these, a carefully selected
few are filtered into the archives of society
to serve as footnotes of the past in the
manufacture of histories.
The juxtaposition of child and gun is the
most ironic of all image combinations. Traditionally,
the child has been universally coded as
a symbol of innocence, hope and future,
while the gun serves as a notorious icon
of violence, death and destruction. The
unlikely union of these two opposites pokes
the eternal riddle of mankind's true nature:
how can we create the greatest good as well
as perpetrate the greatest evil?
It is in this contradiction that provokes
the main theme of this exhibition. Traversing
four major regions of the globe, the eighty-five
child soldier photographs of this show explores
not only how innocence is so easily corrupted,
but how our societies perpetuate the never-ending
cycle of violence.
Sadly, the future has no cure for the past.
Many of the children photographed in this
exhibition have perished in struggles long
now finished. Thus, what is most important
in viewing this collection is to try to
understand the way in which these images
communicate to us, mindful of how our own
cultural vantage point affects the way in
which we read them. |
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| Curator's
Biography |
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Peter Mantello is a
lecturer, filmmaker, writer and founder
of the Center for Advanced Media Arts Studies
(CAMAS) at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
in Beppu, Kyushu, Japan.
>From 1989 to 1996, he covered the civil
war in Burma, living for various periods
inside the Karen rebel controlled areas
as well as along the Thai-Burmese border.
His photographs can be found in the United
Nations Gallery in New York, the Bundekunsthalle
Museum in Bonn and the Powerhouse Gallery
in New York or in the recent book Child
Soldiers, edited by Leora Khan. A recipient
of numerous senior artist grants and awards
from both the Canada Arts Council and Conseil
des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec, the majority
of his photography, films and writings focuses
on the thin membrane between reality and
fiction, the literal and the literary, actual
histories and synthetic ones. |
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