Art / The Vestibules
Art exhibition promotes peace between cities
An exhibition focusing on snapshots of everyday life from 50 cities and highlighting the connections across borders comes to The Vestibules in City Hall this February.
The international art exhibition, 50 Cities — 50 Traces is organised by Mayors for Peace, an organisation promoting co-operation between its member cities and striving towards an ultimate goal of nuclear disarmament.
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50 Cities — 50 Traces was launched in 2018 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Over the past two years, the exhibition has travelled between several host cities, arriving in Bristol, which has been a member of Mayors for Peace for more than 30 years, in February 2020.
The pieces in 50 Cities – 50 Traces were created by Klaudia Dietewich. Photo by Alex Jacobs
The artist who has created the pieces in the exhibition is German photographer Klaudia Dietewich.
Her artwork showcases what she terms “traces” of daily life, especially highlighting urban and industrial locations, stained walls to a scratches on a pavement.
After taking each photo, Dietewich prints the images on aluminium paper. The result is halfway between a photograph and abstract artwork, showing the elusive nature of the traces that she attempts to capture.
For 50 Cities — 50 Traces, Dietewich has taken an image in each of the cities taking part in Mayors for Peace, to represent a “distillation of life lived”.
The exhibition will be in Bristol until the end of February 2020. Photo by Alex Jacobs
Paradoxically, Dietewich’s artwork emphasises the evidence of city life whilst also highlighting its vulnerability to disappearing, echoing Mayors for Peace’s warnings against the use of nuclear weapons.
50 Cities – 50 Traces is open from midday-6pm from Monday-Friday throughout February 2020 and entry is free.
There will be a series of free lunchtime talks on weekdays at 12.30pm during the exhibition’s duration. Find out more about these at www.theislandbristol.com/events/list
Read more: The Vestibules to continue until 2021
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