- Venue
- Here Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, October 11, 2012
- Ends
- Friday, October 26, 2012
- Address
- 108 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3RU
- Location
- South West England
Here Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by emerging artist Zanne Andrea. In ‘Two Minutes to Midnight’ Andrea addresses the notion of a nearing Doomsday, an apocalyptic countdown to unimaginable catastrophic events. A starting point for this exhibition is The Doomsday Clock, used by the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists since 1947 to measure how close the human race is to destroying the world. This idea of a figurative midnight mirrors much of the anxiety felt during the atomic age and the Cold War, but is also relevant to the more recent anxiety of living in a post 9/11 world with terrorism threats, economies on the brink of collapse, uprisings, protests, world disasters and nuclear meltdowns.Two Minutes to Midnight coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a nearly catastrophic nuclear standoff that lasted 13 days between the Soviet Union and The USA, which occurred in October 1962. This exhibition also happens in the months preceding what is known as the end of a long count Mayan calendar, 21 December 2012, and to some has become yet another predictive date for destruction of the human race.
