Addendum...

Hmmm - here's a riff on technology and memory. The other exhibition that impressed me greatly at the Leeds Art Gallery was this...

The premier of a moving-image installation by Corinne Silva. In 1949 David Oluwale, a stowaway from Nigeria had dreams of studying engineering in Leeds. Twenty years later he was found drowned in the River Aire. Subsequently two police officers were found guilty of assault. This work relates to Oluwale's final journey down the river and also narrates a journey through the city, a journey of time, change and transition that applies both to the contemporary development of the city and the experience of migration.

(Commissioned by Leeds Art Gallery with support from Arts Council England).

It worked on two levels. The journey by river through the city, revealing both the wealth and poverty, absolutely beautifully filmed - and the stories narrated by other Nigerian and Caribbean immigrants.


And memory? Well, quite aside from the fact that the installation deals with memories - recording them and keeping them alive - it was the one memorable exhibit that I did not capture on camera. As a result, when I came to do a blog post this morning, it was not 'in front of me' so to speak. I have always been doubtful about the value of seeing  travel experiences through a lens (camera/video - glasses are helpful!). What gets fixed in the mind becomes so image-dependent. And this experience tends to confirm that - except that I did remember, in the shower...