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Open Eye Gallery premieres two new projects by UK photographer

Christopher Stewart. Continuing his exploration of the international

security industry, Stewart takes us on a photographic journey through

the darkened interior of a house in Arkansas in which private military

personnel are prepared for service in the "War on Terror". His second

project, a two-screen video installation, sets its sights on the

surveillance systems installed above the Port of Gibraltar, looking out

to sea, to Africa and beyond.

'Kill House" (2005) is a series of photographs of a house in Arkansas,

USA that was built for the purpose of training private military

personnel to clear domestic houses in conflict zones such as Iraq and

Afghanistan. The deserted interiors resemble a grim stage-set

constructed from scarred and smoke-damaged concrete and iron, punctuated

by occasional, skeletal props of abandoned furniture. "The 'architect'

of this building imagines a dystopian scenario, a polarised version of

the American domestic house where form follows fear rather than

function" (Christopher Stewart).

Stewart's video installation 'Levanter' (2002) takes its name from a

meteorological phenomenon that forms for a few days a year between

Africa and Europe in the Straits of Gibraltar. The Levanter cloud

envelops the summit of the Rock of Gibraltar and the military base that

is built on it. Stewart's video shows us a military

surveillance/monitoring tower, shrouded in mist, and Levanter-obscured

views down to the port, the Straits and the African coast. "The two

images represent both the limits and the freedoms of globalisation: the

need on the one hand for close monitoring and paranoia and on the other

for free trade and freedom of movement of goods and people. The

appearance of the Levanter seems to symbolically suggest the limitations

of both enterprises" (Christopher Stewart).

Editors Note:

Supportive Quote

'Christopher Stewart's powerfully disorienting photographs detonate ourOrwellian anxieties... [they are]...preliminary studies in the banality

of dystopia."

Mike Davis, 2003 - American social commentator, urban theorist and

sociographer.

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28-32 Wood Street Liverpool L1 4AQ UK Tel: +44 (0)151 709 9460 http://www.openeye.org.uk Opening Times : Tuesday-Saturday 10.30am - 5.30pm. Closed Sundays and Mondays Admission is free. info@openeye.org.uk