Céline Browning: War Games
@ Dittmar Gallery
1999 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Friday, February 22nd, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Monday, March 25th
War Games began in 2014, the same year that 12 year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police while playing with a toy gun in a public park. This tragedy and the national conversation surrounding it sparked a series of unsettling realizations. While childhood play is often seen as a safe space, it is clear that real violence and play violence overlap and influence one another, creating a murky line between safety and danger.
Each work of art in War Games combines children’s toys with state-sanctioned violence, commenting on the insidious ways that threats of violence impact American domestic life. The surreal toys presented here seem disconcertingly new, disturbingly familiar, and vaguely threatening. A question hangs over the work – what will keep us safe?
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