Bad Peace
By
Carl Rowe
2016
Benjamin Franklin said “There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace”. I am not sure I really agree with that. It is an insidious, incremental, imperceptible violence that ferments and creeps its way through a ‘bad peace’. It is too late to avoid war when a bad peace turns bad.
Bad Peace, 2016 has connotations with lynching, with bombings, with voodoo, with mechanisation, with nomadism, with instability, with a post-annihilation landscape. Incendiary sausages are caught just before impact. You want to laugh. It is almost vulgar. But deep down you know it is bad.
Carl Rowe
Carl Rowe
Constellation. Group exhibition featuring staff and postgraduate alumni from NUA (UK) and PZT (NL)
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