This thought-provoking exhibition brings together several series of work by artist-photographer Edmund Clark portrayed through sound, moving images and large multi-media installations, to explore the hidden experiences of state control during the ‘Global War on Terror’.
Looking at issues of security, secrecy, representation and legality, the show focuses on the measures taken by states to protect their citizens from the threat of terrorism, and the far-reaching effects of such methods of control.
The exhibition brings together several series of Clark’s work including images and documents of CIA operated secret prisons or ‘black sites’, photographs from the detention camps at Guantanamo Bay, correspondence from around the world sent to a British detainee in Guantanamo that was transformed by the censorship and intervention of the US military, and the experience of a ‘controlled person’ who was placed in a house in suburban England under the restrictive conditions of a control order – a form of house arrest or detention without trial – introduced in 2005.
Edmund Clark: ‘War of Terror’ at The Imperial War Museum
28 July 2016 – 28 August 2017
Open 10am – 6pm every day
IWM London
Lambeth Road
London
SE1 6HZ
About Edmund Clark:
Edmund Clark is an award-winning artist whose work links history, politics and representation. His work traces ideas of shared humanity, otherness and unseen experience through landscape, architecture and the documents, possessions and environments of subjects of political tension. Recent works Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition’, The Mountains of Majeed, Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out’ and Control Order House’ engage with state censorship to explore the hidden experiences and spaces of control and incarceration in the Global War on Terror’. His work has been exhibited widely including major solo museum exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum, London and Zephyr, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim.