Episode 5: War by RUYA MAPS published on 2019-12-13T16:52:08Z This final episode of the podcast series looks at the underlying the cause of many of the different experiences of heartbreak we have explored, war. It draws on the connection between war and the people it displaces, and looks at how those people are represented. A number of works in Heartbreak deal directly with conflict. RUYA MAPS commissioned the artist Majd Abdel Hamid to produce a series of embroidery works that feature the blueprints of Tadmur prison in Syria that was destroyed by ISIS. The exhibition also includes works by the Dada artist Imad Issa, they document his personal experience of living through civil war in Lebanon through performance-films and a series of busts that are damaged by shrapnel Joining us on this first segment of the podcast are the film making duo Elena Horn and Alessandro Leonardi to discuss the process behind making their documentary film ‘Pizza, Democracy and the Little Prince’, and how it represents refugees differently. Watch the trailer for Elena and Alessandro's short film here: https://vimeo.com/313879071
