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The Art of Trauma and Peace

8th January 2009 to 9th January 2009 - 6pm till 7.30pm
Exhibition

Price: Free
Venue: White Room

Company: Organised by The Courtyard Gallery - Curator Lotfi Kaabi - Planet Art eXchange

A brand new exhibition opening at The Courtyard Gallery housed in The Courtyard Theatre on December 15^th 2008. The Art of Trauma and Peace' will draw together for the first time, 25 artists from 7 countries with works created between 1978 and 2008 to explore the trauma of loss in all its aspects and the transition to peace. This process has to be one of healing, the real ‘witnessing presence' created in The Art of Trauma and Peace' by the varying artists, brings home the intensity of this process, allowing all involved to better understand and appreciate the damage to the internal ‘other', the absence, and confusion, that occurs in the traumatic experience, as well as the hopefully resulting reaction towards peace. Indirect, un-anestheticised and dialogic in nature, ‘the art of trauma and peace'.

Important elements of The Art of Trauma are illustrated in the works of Iraqi artists during the period 1978-2008 including the POW, by the late Ismael Fettah (1989), Adel Mohsen (1978), Saad Tweij (1982) Amir Hussein (1982), Adel Kamal (1999), Saad Attai (2001), Amer Al Abidi (2002).

Other exhibitors include Tamara Nouri (Iraq), Chris Holden , Mary Fitzpatrick , Tony Knox, Ruth Dillon , Pui Lee (UK), Raeda Ashour (KSA), Reem Khateeb (Syria) Hamid Buhioui, Fatima Hajjaji, Mohamed Rachidi, Faouzia Jaidani and Mustapha Meskine (Morocco) Lisa Who (Australia), Derek Cully ( Ireland ) Placide (France), Larisa Dizdar (Bosnia)

The artists' profiles can be viewed on www.pax08.com/oceansapart.html