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Date: 08 August 2009 06:06:13
Headed over to the Baltic the other day after my trip to St. James'. There had been a change of exhibitions on the ground floor since my last visit. The main exhibition is now Subterrania by Fiona Crisp. It's a collection of photographs from underground: the catacombs of Rome, the Second World War underground hospital in Guernsey and Killhope mining museum in County Durham. There is a strange beauty about these things combining shape and stark emptiness. My personal favourites were the pictures of Killhope which had an orangey / bronzey feel showing an organic quality but also industrial beauty.
The cinema installation at the moment is Akram Zaatari's Nature Morte which is a film on Lebanese Resistance. It has that kind of late night Channel Four / BBC Two wtf feel and to be honest without a glass or two of wine I find that stuff difficult to take. I tried but sometimes you just need to unwind and this is not a film to unwind to.