Participaton key focus of provocative National Gallery exhibition
01 Oct 2012, 12:37 PM
Neil Merrett
Societal challenges in addressing the prevalence of child abuse within the Maldives was the central theme of a one-day contemporary art exhibition held at the National Art Gallery in Male’ on Saturday.
Ismail Asif, who coordinated the exhibition along with a number of fellow local artists, said each installation aimed to focus on fears of how “common” child abuse had become within the Maldives, partly as a result of an unwillingness to discuss and tackle the matter within society.
“[The exhibition] is about trying to break taboos, it really is a challenge to discuss these matters. The system has so many flaws we wanted to depict; these are flaws within the education system, the judicial system and wider society,” he said.
Despite the difficult subject matter, organisers claimed that after three weeks of work, the exhibition, which ran from 4:00pm to 6:00pm, aimed to encourage participation from members of the public to try and encourage discussion about child abuse.
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