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SUMMARY:Loss
DESCRIPTION:\n31st May – 28th July 2012\nJananne Al-Ani, Annabel Do
 ver, Rozanne Hawksley & Steve McQueen.\nCurated in collaboration with 
 IWM (Imperial War Museums)\n \nConflict and loss are so intrinsically
  linked that the problem of how to remember, how to memorialise, is ev
 er-present. Being based in Belfast, the Golden Thread Gallery has conf
 ronted this problem in relation to Northern Irish issues on many occas
 ions, but Loss, curated in collaboration with IWM (Imperial War Museum
 s), looks at loss, conflict and war as simultaneously personal and com
 mon to all.\n \nThe iconic Queen and Country, Steve McQueen’s tribu
 te to British Service personnel who died as a result of the Iraq War, 
 embodies the concurrent private and public loss inherent in war. While
  each stamp is a photographic portrait of an individual who lost their
  life, an enduring personal memorial, they combine to represent a coll
 ective, national loss.\n \nAnnabel Dover’s cyanotypes present symbo
 lic objects that represent the stories of some of her family members.�
 � Dover states “The personal narratives we impose upon objects often
  provide a hidden expression for the breakdowns in human relationships
  and the memories and emotions that they reflect”. The simple object
 s depicted in the cyanotypes, a scarf, a hat, a sock, belie the hidden
  drama that they represent: for example the hat, which was worn by Dov
 er’s stepfather’s first wife when she received a missing in action
  telegram about her husband.\n \nPersonal stories that are within a w
 ider context of loss are also explored in Jananne Al-Ani’s A Loving 
 Man, a video installation featuring herself, her mother and her three 
 sisters talking about their absent father/husband. Using the construct
  of a children’s memory game (My aunty went to market and bought), t
 he work investigates the role of memory in loss and the uneven nature 
 of our recollections.\n \nPale Armistice, Rozanne Hawksley’s semina
 l meditation on war is stark in its simplicity – a wreath made from 
 white gloves. Pale in colour, its message brutal: death is a great equ
 alizer. The commonality of death, the permanence of loss, the nature o
 f memory and the futility of needless death are all epitomised by the 
 single white wreath.\n \nAs an exhibition, the works explore the natu
 re of loss and addresses that fact that it can divide as much as it ca
 n unite. On one hand we are told that it is cathartic to remember and 
 to share our memories, on the other there are those that do not want t
 o. There is a fine line between remembering and celebrating, and old d
 ivides and hatreds can be rekindled. It is 2012 and Belfast is unrecog
 nisable from the Belfast it once was, but that does not mean that the 
 losses suffered on all sides have been forgotten. In a time of burgeon
 ing tourism, the solution to how we can acknowledge our past, keep the
  lessons learned by it, yet not be overshadowed by it, is still a work
  in progress.\n \nwww.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk\n84 – 94 Great Patr
 ick Street, Belfast, BT12LU\n\nFor more information visit http://www.c
 reativechangeni.com/events/loss
DTSTART:20120531T170000Z
DTEND:20120728T163000Z
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LOCATION:Golden Thread Gallery ,84 – 94 Great Patrick Street
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