Invisible violence

This exhibition explores the so-called invisible violence that can found in daily life anywhere in the world, both in working environments and in domestic and everyday settings. It includes administrative and bureaucratic violence; forms of visual violence in the media; and the subtle forms of sectarianism and animosity of any community under the current socio-political circumstances and in recent history. The show compares different types of violence through artists’ work that analyses territorial, nationalist, mythological and identity-related themes. 
 
Invisible Violence is a multidisciplinary project curated by Zoran Erić, Séamus Kealy and Blanca de la Torre, and supported by Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, the Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art in Serbia, and the Salzburger Kunstverein in Austria.  The original geopolitical context of this project was the triangle formed in Europe by the Basque Country, Ireland (especially Northern Ireland) and Serbia, all of them marked by a stereotyped image of violence and terror. This common denominator and constellation was a backdrop to the project, which has now been extended to other European contexts such as Austria, among others.

AC/E is collaborating through the PICE mobility grants by supporting the participation of artists Itziar Barrio, Francisco Ruiz and María López Ruido.