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Set against the derelict and disused factories of Leicester, known as the ‘city of migrants’, the work attempts a historical ‘documentation’ and tribute to the forgotten citizens who helped build what was once major industrial city. Some of the factories are in the process of being demolished, others have fallen into the hands of developers. The work goes beyond the tradition of ‘landscape’ and ‘document’. Instead, it uses ‘documentary form’ to address abstract ideas of cultural and political dislocation, of being simultaneously both part of a city and excluded from it. Oscillating between past and present, it portrays a decaying city, reminiscent of developing, than developed countries. The ex factory workers appear here and there, some passing through, others ‘waiting’, as if arrested in a frozen tension. The landscape signifies ‘abandonment’; once a useful worker and now abandoned by the city? Or, is this a portrayal of ‘disillusionment’ as the migrant’s journey is, above all, to seek a better life, if not for themselves, then for their children. Or is this the end of an era, as Gilles Deleuze foresaw that “capitalism is no longer involved in production, which it often relegates to the Third World… This is no longer a capitalism for production but for the product, which is to say, for being sold or marketed. Thus it is essentially dispersive, and the factory has given way to the corporation”.
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