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DCA Galleries during the Trauma exhibition. People walk around the galleries, looking at sculptures and canvases on the walls.

Trauma

Martin Boyce, Willie Doherty, Kendell Geers, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Johan Grimonprez, Guillermo Kuitca, Maria Lindberg, Tracey Moffatt, Lucia Nogueira, Anri Sala, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Christopher Wool

07 July - 02 September 2001

Unsettling, impassioned, provocative, sometimes beautiful and sometimes deliberately not, Trauma engages with serious issues and subjects that are simultaneously compelling and disturbing.

The experience of trauma on local and global scales has given rise to some of the most remarkable art of recent years. This major new exhibition explores how art has addressed the immediate experience of traumatic events and situations and how the profound personal, psychological, social, cultural and political effects reverberate through our lives.

Trauma presents some outstanding art works, which consider of the diverse and often awkward, inescapable but indefinable responses to life-changing events. While involving serious issues and emotions, the exhibition includes moments of humour.

International and contemporary in its focus, the exhibition includes work in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video, film and installation. It brings the work of some of the world’s most acclaimed and exciting artists of recent years together.

A National Touring Exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery for the Arts Council of England in collaboration with Dundee Contemporary Arts.

Artists Talk | Trauma

Exhibition images

DCA Galleries during the Trauma exhibition. People walk around the galleries, looking at sculptures and canvases on the walls.
A sculpture from the Trauma exhibition. A square cabinet made out of various coloured blocks and metal.
From Trauma at DCA Galleries. A photograph of a dirty, abandoned room.
From Trauma at DCA Galleries. A photograph taken from above of two little girls holding scissors.
From Trauma in DCA Galleries. A large clump of orange light bulbs.
From Trauma in DCA Galleries. A photograph of a woman lying on the floor in a dark room.
DCA Galleries during the Trauma exhibition. People walk around the galleries, looking at sculptures and canvases on the walls.
A sculpture from the Trauma exhibition. A square cabinet made out of various coloured blocks and metal.
From Trauma at DCA Galleries. A photograph of a dirty, abandoned room.
From Trauma at DCA Galleries. A photograph taken from above of two little girls holding scissors.
From Trauma in DCA Galleries. A large clump of orange light bulbs.
From Trauma in DCA Galleries. A photograph of a woman lying on the floor in a dark room.
DCA Galleries during the Trauma exhibition. People walk around the galleries, looking at sculptures and canvases on the walls.
A sculpture from the Trauma exhibition. A square cabinet made out of various coloured blocks and metal.
From Trauma at DCA Galleries. A photograph of a dirty, abandoned room.
From Trauma at DCA Galleries. A photograph taken from above of two little girls holding scissors.
From Trauma in DCA Galleries. A large clump of orange light bulbs.
From Trauma in DCA Galleries. A photograph of a woman lying on the floor in a dark room.