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Plymouth Museum & Art Gallery

Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AJ

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Human Cargo [31 October 2007]
Melanie Jackson, ‘The Undesirables (work in progress)’, etchings, transcripts, animated sequences, sound, 2007. Courtesy: the artist. [enlarge]

What role might an artist play in a museum show commemorating the 1807 act to abolish slavery? ‘Human Cargo’ sees interventions by five contemporary artists that challenge an apparently objective account of the transatlantic slave  Read on…

Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth
22 September – 24 November

Reviewed by: Gabrielle Hoad »

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