First Lines: J. G. Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition

 

(art: Luca Delbaldo)

A disquieting feature of this annual exhibition - to which the patients themselves were not invited - was the marked preoocupation of the paintings with the the of world cataclysm, as if these long-incarcerated patients had sensed some seismic upheavel within the minds of their doctors and nurses.