From the ‘ War on Terror’ to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle
East Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and
passionate Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human
behaviour and the underlying despair. Looking at Afghanistan Palestine and Iraq he makes an
impassioned attack on the poverty and loss of freedom at the heart of such unnecessary
suffering. These essays offer reflections on the political at the core of artistic expression
and at the center of human existence itself.
