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    • About the project
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    • Gallery and Whitworth Exhibition

Understanding Displacement Aesthetics

This three-year AHRC project investigates the humanitarian aspirations of art and craft, and analyses the impact of artistic responses to displacement and refugeedom.

About the project

The project aims to understand how and in what forms 'displacement aesthetics’ emerged in response to the Second World War and its aftermath.

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Gallery and Whitworth Exhibition

A collection of artworks on displacement and refugeedom.

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