EXHIBITION
PART OF FROZEN
Angels Fighting Devils
Park Theatre Exhibition Corridors, 23 February - 11 April 2014
Displayed at Park Theatre’s Exhibition Corridors.
Angels Fighting Devils explored some of the issues raised in Bryony Lavery's Frozen: those of protection, fear and violence. The exhibition deviates from the play through an investigation of adult perceptions of violence, particularly against children. It explored how these complex understandings translate to children’s knowledge of good, evil, danger and safety.
Rob Bidder: Stranger Danger
Blueprint theatre asked Rob Bidder to do some drawings based around interviews that they conducted with children about "stranger danger". When he listened to the interviews it was surprising how different their answers were.
Freya Pocklington: A Mother’s View
Based on a speech from Bryony Lavery’s Frozen, Freya Pocklington's piece examines how parents keep ‘alive’ their child’s memory by making their bedroom like a shrine. Images of animals have been used as a way of communicating something terrible to others.
Stewart Cliff: Winter Landscape
In the context of the exhibition the abstract formalism of Stewart Cliff's piece becomes emotionally charged, as we are lead to observe close up the granular detail of the printed matter as if pouring over valuable evidence.
Ellen van de Graaf: Little Red
Ellen van de Graaf's piece explores the concept of child safety and ‘stranger danger’ and the way these themes have become woven through popular stories and fairy-tales.
Joanna Gifford: Mother’s Love
In Joanna Gifford's piece the bricks represent the desire of the mother to encase and protect the child from the dangers of the outside world, a closeting that actually imprisons both mother and child.