Exhibition
Graham Fagen | The Slave's Lament
20 May 2017 – 29 Oct 2017
Address
- 1 Queen Stree
- Edinburgh
- EH2 1JD
- United Kingdom
‘The Slave’s Lament’ was Roberts Burns’ only work to empathise with the appalling hurt of the displaced, the trafficked and the enslaved.
About
A beautiful lyric written over two hundred years ago, it is a narrative that remains entirely contemporary as we think of current tragedies unfolding on borders and in hinterland locations.
Replete with a moving score written by Sally Beamish, performed by the Scottish Ensemble and Reggae singer Ghetto Priest, and produced by legendary On-U-Sound founder Adrian Sherwood, Graham Fagen creates a fascinating soundclash, where Burn’s poetry finds a haunting bedfellow in Jamaican reggae music – and finds much common ground. This evocative video installation was curated by Hospitalfield, Arbroath and exhibited at Scotland + Venice 2015, when Graham Fagen represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale.