Current exhibition: Ecologies of Violence

Zone Rouge/Red Zone: Back Forest Reflections (2025) by Antony Lyons

3 October - 5 December, weekdays 10am-8pm

Opening reception: 2 October, 6-8pm

Book tickets for the exhibition opening reception at Peltz Gallery

Peltz Gallery

43 Gordon Square

London

WC1H 0PD

Across diverse landscapes, conflict-ridden regions often become ‘exclusion’ or ‘red zones’: geographically and ecologically devastated areas deemed too hazardous for human habitation. More than a century after the First World War, parts of Vimy Ridge on the old Western Front in France remain off limits to the public due to buried explosives, collapsing tunnels, and toxic residues. This now forested exclusion zone is a landscape shaped by human and more-than-human ecologies of violence. This exhibition features Zone Rouge / Red Zone: Back Forest Reflections, a film-poem by ecological artist Antony Lyons using infrared, reflective surfaces, and ambient sound to evoke the layered histories of destruction and renewal.

This project presents research carried out as part of the UKRI FLF ‘Ecologies of Violence: Heritage And Conflict In More-Than-Human Worlds’, led by Dr Esther Breithoff and supported by Dr Matthew Leonard.

Event

18 September, 6.30-8pm

Peltz Gallery warmly invites you to an in-conversation event and private view of the Ecologies of Violence exhibition, as part of Art History Festival 2025: Art & Nature.The curator, archaeologist Esther Breithoff, will be joined by art and design historian Charlotte Ashby to discuss practice-led research, art history at Birkbeck and the research project leading to the exhibition.

Book tickets for Ecologies of Violence in-conversation event and private view.