Depictions of Excessive Force – between Disturbance and Attraction

Digital exhibition by Kunsthalle Giessen on the occasion of the dialogue panel on October 30, 2024

How can depictions of violence help create visibility and raise awareness of conflicts? Are there limits to what can be shown and where do they lie? How can and should psychological suffering be visualized? With the digital exhibition, which is presented on the occasion of the dialogue panel ‘Depictions of Excessive Force. Between Disturbance and Attraction’ in cooperation with the interdisciplinary research center TraCe (‘Transformations of Political Violence’), the Kunsthalle Giessen is putting a focus on these questions.

We present the photo series ‘Survivors’ by the Congolese documentary photographer Arlette BASHIZI, the documentation of the performance ‘Armor’ (2015, Kabul, Afghanistan) by the Afghan artist Kubra Khademi, who lives in exile in Paris, photographs by the internationally active war photographer Vincent Haiges and an excerpt from the photo book ‘War Porn’ by the war reporter Christoph Bangert.

The exhibition is accessible via the Kunsthalle Giessen Instagram account and the Kunsthalle website.
Please note: The contributions contain explicit aspects of violence.

The online exhibition accompanies the dialogue panel
DEPICTIONS OF EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE – BETWEEN DISTURBANCE AND ATTRACTION and is a cooperation with
TraCe Research Center Transformations of Political Violence
TraCe is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).