Martin Firrell
Idiocy Walks
with Wisdom
2014
Five environments were installed under Waterloo Station examining the conditions for war or peace, for happy co-existence or mutual annihilation. The five underground rooms of It Ends Here each explored an aspect of human nature.

The Idiocy & Wisdom Room: What seems like madness may be sanity, and what seems reckless may be wise. Idiocy and wisdom may appear similar as identical twins, and like identical twins, be impossible at times to tell apart.

What does an examination of the human in crisis tell us about the kind of animal we really are? Without doubt we are a warring and violent species, but we are also redeemed by something else - by our capacity (weak though it is) to see beyond immediate hurts and imagine an alternative to retaliation, by our attempts to live humanely in an over-crowded and tension-filled world. 
Part Of
It Ends Here
Medium
Acrylic, identical twins, blue light, haze,
found sound
Displayed
The vaults at Waterloo Station, London UK
1 to 4 September 2014
Supported by
Twentieth Century Fox
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