This is a beautiful and sensitive exhibition. It is quite moving and evocative with a variety of works and historical information on Bedlam, it’s origins and journey. The first room contains an installation by Eva Kotatkova. She describes her approach as ‘archaeological’. From her frequent visits and research trips to a psychiatric hospital Kotatkova creates a mixture of collage, photographic collage, text and sculptures laid out in such an intriguing way you can’t help but explore. Kotatkova explains, ‘Asylum presents a collection of fears, anxieties, phobias and phantasmagoric visions of patients and children suffering from communication difficulties or struggling to fit within social structures, a chaotic archive of inner visions.’
