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The Cabinet of the Wry Witness

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The Cabinet of the Wry Witness is a poetic cabinet of curiosities.

Organised into seven symbolic drawers, the collection journeys through landscapes of beauty, systems of belief, medicine, cultural spectacle, melancholy, artistic inheritance and renewal.

Mountains become human levellers. Institutions become exhibits. Scientists, philosophers, conspiracists, entertainers, lovers and artists are examined with equal measures of fascination, humour, scepticism and sympathy. Throughout the collect...