St Albert's Catholic Chaplaincy

Ana Maria Pacheco: Memória Roubada

1 – 30 August 2013

Translated literally, Ana Maria Pacheco's title Memória Roubada means "stolen memories". At the heart of this exhibition are two sculptural works characteristic of both Pacheco's practice and her personal and political concerns about the exercise of power. Displayed facing one another, each work is a wooden cupboard shelved with rows of sculpted heads - the heads in the first piece are anguished and flushed with colour, whilst those they face remain pale and still. Entering a dialogue across the exhibition space, the works together speak both to the brutal history of colonisation and to Protestant and Catholic religious traditions. 

Presented in the beautiful context of the chaplaincy, the exhibition also includes a series of the artist's drypoint prints entitled Dark Event (2007) and a documentary about the artist's work narrated by Colin Wiggins, produced to accompany an exhibition of her work at The National Gallery in 1999.

Mon–Fri, 11am–5pm

Free admission

Event

12 August 2013
Talk: Colin Wiggins on the works of Ana Maria Pacheco

7–9pm

Tickets: £5. Book tickets.