Eyewitness | Sainsbury Centre
Exhibitions
“Eyewitness considers how violent stage and screen narratives can invite questions about our own morality, cultural codes and religious beliefs.”Why are people across the world so fascinated by the dramatisation of killing? From Shakespearean tragedy to Hitchcock’s Psycho, the spectacle of violence is central to performance traditions around the world. Through an exploration of historical and contemporary works by international artists, grappling with the horrors of homicide, Eyewitness considers how violent stage and screen narratives can invite questions about our own morality, cultural codes and religious beliefs.