Viewing Restricted

‘Viewing Restricted: [Re]presenting Poverty is a major new exhibition which sets out to explore different notions, representations and manifestations of ‘poverty’ within a global context. ‘

That’s the kind of introduction I’d have gently persuaded the journalists I’m training in Pakistan at the moment to dump.

But if you think that was a bit over written get your head round what the flyer goes on to state next:

‘Presenting contrasting styles and approaches to their ‘subject’, the artists reveal hidden and untold stories of communities and individuals in contrasting geographical, social and cultural contexts, where the issue of poverty is often underwritten by politics of class, race and migration.‘

Its the kind of crap that some academics waste their entire working lives writing.  Thank god the artists concerned know how to say something.  None more so then David Campbell and  Sharon Lovell, whose  feature Living in the Shadows: China’s Internal Migrants is a tour de force.

Clocking in at just over fifteen minutes I invite anyone who wants to come on the blog and say its too long to step outside.

‘This is documentary making at its sublime best’. Now stick that in your press release LSE.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?