Krzysztof Wodiczko – The Veterans Project :: November 4, 2009 – March 28, 2010 :: Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA.

For three decades, Krzysztof Wodiczko has addressed timely political, social, and psychological issues in his artwork, creating over 80 large-scale public projections around the world. In these works, he transforms the stories, voices, and gestures of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances by projecting them onto public monuments and landmarks.

In a new, projection-based work for the ICA, Polish artist Wodiczko will focus on veterans engaged in active combat in Iraq, as well as Iraqi civilians, looking at their shared experience of the chaos and confusion war brings. Wodiczko’s politically-charged works explore the relationship between art, democracy, trauma and healing. Often taking the form of public or gallery-based projections, Wodiczko’s work creates an interplay between light and dark, drawing our attention to images and stories that might remain otherwise in shadows.