{"id":9741,"date":"2024-11-29T19:41:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T19:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=9741"},"modified":"2024-11-29T19:41:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T19:41:39","slug":"overthrowing-the-oppressor-at-ing-discerning-eye-exhibition-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/overthrowing-the-oppressor-at-ing-discerning-eye-exhibition-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Overthrowing the Oppressor at ING Discerning Eye exhibition 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"620\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hammer-nails-Mall-Galleries.jpg\" alt=\"Sculpture about oppression\" class=\"wp-image-9746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hammer-nails-Mall-Galleries.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hammer-nails-Mall-Galleries-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hammer-nails-Mall-Galleries-768x476.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overthrowing the Oppressor.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hammer, nails, wood  15x30x30cm  2024<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shown in the ING Discerning Eye exhibition in the Mall Galleries, London, November 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This sculpture, composed of a hammer and nails, symbolises the act of the oppressed overthrowing their oppressor. The nails represent the oppressed and the hammer represents their oppressor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The metaphor raises a few questions . How did the nails become driven into the hammer? By another hammer? If so, is that other hammer a potential oppressor? Is the (unseen) second hammer just an oppressor in its own right, simply using the nails for its own ends?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"617\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hammer-nails-Mall-Galleries-Discerning-Eye.jpg\" alt=\"Sculpture - the oppressor and the oppressed\" class=\"wp-image-9744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hammer-nails-Mall-Galleries-Discerning-Eye.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hammer-nails-Mall-Galleries-Discerning-Eye-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hammer-nails-Mall-Galleries-Discerning-Eye-768x474.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overthrowing the Oppressor. Hammer, nails, wood 15x30x30cm 2024 Shown in the ING Discerning Eye exhibition in the Mall Galleries, London, November 2024. This sculpture, composed of a hammer and nails, symbolises the act of the oppressed overthrowing their oppressor. The nails represent the oppressed and the hammer represents their oppressor. The metaphor raises a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[125,122,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9747,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions\/9747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}