Susie MacMurray British, b. 1959
Snares of Enemies, 2018
Reclaimed military barbed wire and portland stone
34 x 18.5 x 18.5 cm
13 3/8 x 7 1/4 x 7 1/4 in
13 3/8 x 7 1/4 x 7 1/4 in
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Barbed wire was used extensively during the First World War to protect the trenches. Here, MacMurray uses reclaimed barbed wire from the British Army Barracks in Aldershot, Surrey, set in...
Barbed wire was used extensively during the First World War to protect the trenches. Here, MacMurray uses reclaimed barbed wire from the British Army Barracks in Aldershot, Surrey, set in Portland stone traditionally used for British war memorials. In this piece, MacMurray explores ideas around the nature of conflict today.
MacMurray explains, “The effects of conflict are like smoke, uncontainable. They don’t stay neatly behind geographic borders but seep into everyday life, through things like depression, night terrors, PTSD, bereavement and the ripple effects of migrants and refugees. My question is how do we remember without conveniently filtering the past? A past that is never truly past but always part of the present, and the future”.
MacMurray explains, “The effects of conflict are like smoke, uncontainable. They don’t stay neatly behind geographic borders but seep into everyday life, through things like depression, night terrors, PTSD, bereavement and the ripple effects of migrants and refugees. My question is how do we remember without conveniently filtering the past? A past that is never truly past but always part of the present, and the future”.