Cornerhouse

Anguish and Enthusiasm is an extraordinary group show of new and recent contemporary art from across the globe, which explores social contexts in the wake of a revolution. While revolutions can serve as landmark shifts in the history of a nation, people or a cause, it is often the post-revolutionary period that reveals most about the mindset and outlook of those that map the new terrain. Frequently followed by Civil Wars and purges, many ideological principles – and people themselves – fall by the wayside. What makes a successful revolutionary? And who gets to decide?

The exhibition will be accompanied by a film programme plus a series of in-depth events exploring these issues.

Hear from the curator

Want to know more about the exhibition? Curator Declan Clarke gives you a short introduction to the group show and touches on the new commissions within it…

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