THE IMAGINATION OF DISASTER - MARCELO GUIMARÃES LIMA (2011)

The Imagination of Disaster
drawings, paintings, prints and installation

Marcelo Guimarães Lima
Julia Townsend

from 15 to 30 May, 2011,
Total Arts Gallery, Dubai, UAE
www.courtyard-uae.com

The Imagination of Disaster presents a visual reflection on the experience of catastrophes, cataclysms and disasters in our times: from global to personal.

When Susan Sontag wrote her celebrated essay on the themes of science fiction movies of the Cold War period, the “Imagination of Disaster ” in science fiction expressed the unconscious, and historically unprecedented, fear of atomic conflict. The potential atomic catastrophe added to the proper human anguish of individual mortality, the supplementary horrors of the sudden and total annihilation of the human race.

More than half a century later, the recurring anxieties of a potential point of rupture in human history are recreated in our present context of man made or human assisted disasters: continuous, accumulated, re-dimensioned, added or crated anew, in the various interconnected fields of human endeavors and life processes, from the ecology to the economy, including as well the culture and the arts.

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