Nervous Lines is the culmination of many conversations over time and distance between Martin Seeds and Felix Shumba, both of whom are artists engaged with the history of occupation in their home countries of Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe.
The exhibition explores the effects (during and enduring) of conflict from the parallel perspectives of two people from opposite hemispheres and seemingly disparate backgrounds, with the shared experience of growing up in countries subjected to the violence of war and occupation by external forces. It asks questions about the physical and imaginary boundaries drawn through and around the places and people who remain when war ends.