New FACT Exhibition: Lesions in the Landscape by Shona Illingworth 17 September – 22 November 2015
Lesions in the Landscape by UK/Danish artist Shona Illingworth is a powerful multi-screen installation, exploring the impact of amnesia and the erasure of individual and cultural memory. Revealing the devastating effects of amnesia on one woman and the striking parallels with the sudden evacuation of the inhabitants of St Kilda in the North Atlantic in 1930, the work examines the profound effect and wider implications of memory loss on identity, space and the capacity to imagine the future. Lesions in the Landscape opens at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool on 17 September 2015 and tours to Sydney Australia, the Outer Hebrides, Scotland and finally to London, where there will be an international symposium in October 2016.
In collaboration with neuropsychologists Martin A. Conway and Catherine Loveday, Illingworth has worked with and filmed Claire, who, following a trauma to her brain can no longer remember most of her past, create new memories or recognise anyone – not even herself. However the new sensory operated camera technology worn around her neck can help reactivate access to some of her ‘forgotten’ memories, in rare bursts of intense recollection.
After premiering at FACT, Lesions in the Landscape will tour to the UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Art Gallery, Outer Hebrides and finally to Dilston Grove & CGP Gallery in London. An accompanying book will be published in autumn 2016.
This exhibition is produced by FACT and is supported by an Arts Award from the Wellcome Trust. With additional support from University of Kent.
Lesions in the Landscape by Shona Illingworth 17 September – 22 November 2015
FACT: 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ
