It is deeply integrated and at the level of accessibility it engages with pleasure, with interest and also with ideas. One of the great issues of our present time, whether it be in theory of art or theory of philosophy, or theory of science, is about thinking, the nature of thought, thinking about thinking. Now this is not just a semantic circle, it's fairly important. One of the 'mother of muses' is memory. The muse is still with us, has to be.
Inspiration has to be in everything.
In our day and age, it's important to get back to more primary, more essential things, and behind the muse is memory. The memory of our recent history is one of the forces which generate the engagement with this great poetic work upstairs. I use that adjective because there is a lot of great work upstairs. And I don't think you could actually produce an exhibition of such diversity and with such convergences linking back to the not so very distant past as in this country at this moment and that flies absolutely in the face of what we're being told at a governmental level. It's about interconnectedness, it's not about retrogression, but it's about a notion of progress which is not linear.