Theatre of War by Habeeb Andu

VINNIPEG, MB - Habeeb Andu and his exhibition Theatre of War in on lat 226 Main Street Gallery. Visitors will be presented with large scale mixed media paintings that offer a visceral, visual response to the ongoing kidnapping of school children in Habeeb's home country of Nigeria. The scattered bullet casings lead the viewer through the exhibition, and are a constant, peripheral reminder of the violence that continues to occur in Nigeria, and which reverberates around the world.

With support from the Winnipeg Arts Council and the Manitoba Arts Council, Habeeb has produced socio-political work that explores the brutality imposed by jihadist terrorist groups on insecure schools and the children who attended them.

"In the theatre of war" Habeeb reminds us, "classrooms become battlefields, the silent cries of lost dreams echo louder than gunfire, every closed school gate hides a childhood interrupted and an education denied, and each child out of school is a silent scream against the chaos of war, reminding us that when schools become targets,

very future we are fighting for is already under attack."