Exploration of fears
Not for the faint-hearted. Pho.bi.a the new window display exhibition at the National Centre for Craft and Design.
THE window display area of the National Centre for Craft and Design will be exploring our fears with its latest exhibits.
Phobias represent an extreme reaction to an object or situation. By looking at these objects and exploring their effects this exhibition focuses on our relationship with the world around us and the objects that populate it.
Pho.bi.a (n) brings together a diverse collection of seemingly unrelated objects and artworks under the umbrella of fear, dislike and aversion.
Related to the main gallery exhibition, Museum of Broken Relationships, it features phobia mail art collected from around the world by recent MA fine art graduate Elizabeth Dismorr, alongside a curated display of phobic objects and an interactive cabinet of curiosities to touch.
The exhibition evokes common fears such as acrophobia (fear of heights) to utterly bizarre psychological afflictions such as pteronophobia (fear of being tickled by feathers) or mycophobia (fear or aversion to mushrooms).
So unless you suffer from an irrational fear of arts and crafts, visit the National Centre for Craft and Design between now and April 15 for an amusing, thought provoking, personal and sometimes terrifying exploration of phobias.
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