Uneven geographies, Nottingham Contemporary, 8 May to 4 July 2010.
An exhibition about our unequal world
At Yearly Meeting both Roy Hattersley and Paul Lacey inspired me as I listened to their lectures about aspects of our unequal world. The following day I went to see Uneven Geographies, an exhibition in which artists from five continents explore experimental ways of depicting globalisation and its human consequences. There was a notice to reassure visitors that the frogs in a fishtank were being properly cared for. In contrast there was no reassurance that the people who appeared in still photographs in many of the exhibits were properly cared for. The multinational companies extracting oil from the Niger Delta generate huge profits for shareholders while seventy per cent of the local people earn less than one dollar a day.
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