Exhibition

Diana Forster: Such a Long Journey

13 Sep 2021 – 25 Sep 2021

Regular hours

Monday
10:00 – 16:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 16:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 16:00
Thursday
10:00 – 16:00
Friday
10:00 – 16:00
Saturday
12:00 – 16:00
Sunday
Closed

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The North Wall Arts Centre

Oxford
England, United Kingdom

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  • 10 mins by bus from central Oxford; 15 mins on bike
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In 1940, at the beginning of the Second World War, Stalin’s troops invaded eastern Poland. A million Polish people were forced from their homes at gunpoint and sent to labour camps in Siberia. Diana Forster’s mother and grandparents were among them.

Diana avoids showing traumatic, disturbing images in her installations and prints as they can turn viewers away. If we accept a role for art in presenting subsequent generations with the realities of war, we have to find new ways of engaging audiences and Diana does this through formal qualities which draw the viewers’ attention while the work is gradually understood.

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