Isabel Rocamora's exhibition, The Intimacy of Violence, extends to the Arts Santa Monica Museum where, suspended in its stairwell, we find the moving image dyptich, Fear, Defence, Disappearance (2011); until 12th June. Through an exploration of the simile between the blockhouses found on the Normandy beaches –now disused vestiges of the Second World War– and the young, fierce bodies of today's soldiers in training, this work questions established notions on the necessity for conflict and the mental and physical structures of defence built around it.

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