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Operation Iraqi Freedom’: Ten Years, 189,000 lives, and 2.2 trillion US...
By Maura James You may have noticed the ‘Reel Iraq’ film festival badge Strife hosted on the blog over the past week. Thursday I attended the festival launch which featured the documentary, ‘The...
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Charnel house, horses, art and conflict: Interview with Tom de Freston
Pablo de Orellana interviews artist Tom de Freston on nature of strife and conflict in his latest paintings on show at Breese Little Gallery. I am at the Bresse Little Gallery, surrounded by twelve...
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Review: Lola Frost – Taking Risks
By Tally de Orellana: Lola Frost, ‘Between Here and There’, 2008. Oil on canvas. 78x68cm Individuals are guided in their choice between risk-avoiding and risk-accepting strategies by their worldviews –...
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The cartography of conflict in the work of Marcus Jansen
By Tom de Freston: Marcus Jansen, solo show at Lazirides Gallery: ‘Whistleblower’ – 11 Rathbone Place, London W1T 1HR. Until Thursday 20th of November 2014 Marcus Jansen is a cartographer of conflict....
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Art, conflict, and the everyday – Traces of War launch event
By: Laurie Benson Ribbons I, 2015. 6 bars made of various Siachen soldier’s clothing, sponge and wood. Photo credit: Baptist Coelho, Project 88, Mumbai; LAMO, Leh. Wednesday 13th April marked the...
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Strife Feature – Imagining War in Film: The Algerian War in The Umbrellas of...
By Uygar Baspehlivan In Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925) or Michael Cimino’s Deer Hunter (1976) after the Vietnam War, the medium of cinema performed as an agent for shaping how war,...
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Art Review: “Red Star Over Russia: A Revolution in Visual Culture 1905-55”...
By Natalia de Orellana Images are repositories of meaning. They are messengers of political ideals, social hopes and human values. Past images come to be read as documents embedded with...
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Canvassing Conflict: Italian Futurism & Artistic Attitudes Toward War Avant...
By Sofia Lesmes 20 November 2018 Futurist painters Luigi Russolo, Carlo Carrà, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severini saw war as a chance for societal progress. This view is...
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Death by Douze Points
by Zenia Duell Conchita causes controversy during Eurovision 2014 (Image credit: Getty Images) For the first time since its conception in 1956, Eurovision has been cancelled. 2020 will not be bringing...
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The Altering Landscapes: Mediation of Holocaust Memories through Art
An event as horrific in its impact and magnitude as the Holocaust, called for proper documentation in the years that followed it. The most valued documentation developed in the form of literary...
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