Blow Up

A young woman blows herself up in a small men’s only mosque in London’s East End. In depicting this unspeakable and extreme act of violence, the work seeks to explore the irrational fear of the other that is the product of the climate of fear generated by the “war on terror”. Blow up is an experimental work of narrative fiction. It is a thematically and visually challenging artist’s video that grapples with the traumatic aftermath of events such as 9/11 and 7/7, and the dangerous consequences of the war on terror. Filmed on a mobile phone, blow up draws its visual inspiration and aesthetic from the haunting images captured on mobile phones by victims of the 7th London bombings.

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• #violence
• #women

Vinebaum Lisa