Kaori Ando "This Is Our Secret...."

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This month the Dazed Gallery hosts an exhibition by Kaori Ando, an artist who seeks to "re-ignite" our understanding of child abuse by focusing on the profound social isolation suffered by its victims. Herself a childhood victim of physical and mental abuse, Ando's work seeks to pull focus away from the mass media's common representations of child abuse and remind us that the most common forms generally take place within the family structure. Her work has a fundamentally unsettling feel, placing the viewer in the deeply uncomfortable role of voyeur to scenes full of loneliness. All proceeds from sales of the work will be donated to children's charities.