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Deborah Levy can’t stop thinking about a work seen at Kettle’s Yard more than 30 years ago
‘Re-Writing History’ was the title of an exhibition at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, curated in 1990 by Anna Harding. This intriguing, radical group show featured the work of David Hammons, Alfredo Jaar, Sarkis and Francesc Torres. I was 29 when I first saw it, a little-known writer with a first novel,
Beautiful Mutants (1989), under my belt. I was also, at that time, writing a fiction I reckoned I might title
Swallowing Geography.
In September 1990, the UK was coming to the end of the Thatcher years; we were growing out our mullet haircuts and getting to grips with Microsoft Word. When I arrived at Kettle’s Yard to see the show, I intuited from the catalogue essay, written by Harding, that ‘Re-Writing History’ was exploring some of the questions I myself was thinking about in
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