THE MINES AWARENESS TRUST
Fragments
The Bank of Butterfield kindly sponsored MAT to fund the Fragments exhibition to take place in the Inner Market Street in St. Peter Port, Guernsey, 4th - 7th November 2008.
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Fragments is a series of sculptures by the Canadian Sculptor, Blake. Through his work, he aims to raise awareness of the continuing effects and injuries caused by cluster bombs, landmines and other unexploded ordnance. There are 19 quarter-life-sized bronze sculptures that have been fragmented to distort the bodies.It is an astounding exhibition that relays the importance of mine action organisations. The sculptures focus on a traumatic experience and carry the tragedy of a dysfunctional life. Named after a specific weapon, ‘Hamdy HAK-1, is a body with legs but no head, no arms, no feet, where life and death coexist as an affirmation of life itself. The expressive power of this sculpture grows slowly; it deepens with time, sustained contemplation and with the growing understanding of the social and political associations. It reaches the point where figuration and abstraction cohabit and where the visual, the social and the political converse. |
For more information on Blake's work please visit
www.blakefragments.com
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