Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Milestone Exhibition

Something slightly disturbing lurks in the dark at the University of Greenwich.The north corridor of the university's Queen Anne building is adjacent to theThames, and cold. Inside the lights are dimmed, leaving only the shimmer of 10shallow white bowls, each about 16 inches in diameter.The bowls sit on plinths and form a single column reaching further in to thecorridor. Above each is a projector, beaming in to the bowls an image of theplaces where 10 stowaways died, plunging out of the undercarriages of airplanes.Lifting the bowls triggers an audio track recorded by artist Graeme Miller atthe locations depicted. You can also "feel" the sounds through the bowl.

It all makes for a slightly unsettling experience.The piece is called Beheld and is part of Milestone, an exhibition which spanstwo locations - Greenwich and Holborn - and uses journeying as a metaphor to examine the relevance of the issues raised by Macpherson Report into the policehandling of the Stephen Lawrence case, 10 years on from its publication.Gallery Curator David Waterworth says: "There are also 10 blank bowls in thecrypt at St Andrew's, Holborn, representing places Graeme hasn't visited yet.They represent Beheld being an ongoing project because these are just 10people's lives out of a continuing problem."

Milestone runs until Thursday 15 October.

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