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Paul Seawright

Exhibition — Fondation d'entreprise espace écureuil pour l'art contemporain

paul seawright, hidden, 2002

c-print

commande de l'imperial war museum, londres

coproduction printemps de septembre et centre photograpique de l'ile-de-france, pontault-combault

Born in 1965 in Belfast, he lives in Newport (Wales).

 

One of the recurring themes in Paul Seawright’s work concerns the limits, the contours and the no-man’s-land within which everything seems possible without really being so. Working to a commission from the Imperial War Museum in London, in June 2002 the artist made a series of photographs in Afghanistan entitled Hidden, showing mine-ridden or mine-scarred desolate landscapes. These impassable sectors have become a kind of barrier preventing the repatriation of the displaced populations around the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Rather than showing the obvious effects of the war, Seawright characteristically alludes to the political pollution hidden in the landscape.