Ariel: A junk shop find, a prediction for the future, and a love story

Part audio-walk, part installation, and part performance Ariel, conceived by Alice Tatton Brown, is a 30-minute performance designed for two people at a time, taking place in Exeter Central Library.

Using an extraordinary early 20th century photographic collection, found in an Exeter junk shop, Ariel delves into an unsolved mystery of the two people in the photographs. Sharing this private collection for the first time, Alice will reveal the patterns the couple left behind leading to three years of research and the ultimate discovery of their identity. The truth, as it turns out, is almost unbelievable. 

Today, our modern preoccupation with photography and documentation seems to know no bounds. We have in the last 20 years been witness to a digital revolution that has changed the way we think about privacy; about what we share, how we share it, and about that fine line between private and public.

Ariel is about sharing something private. It is the delicate re-working of a love story that questions what we create together, and what remains of us after we’re gone.

19-26 October, Mon – Sat, every half an hour between 9.30am – 5.30pm
Exeter Central Temporary Library, Castle Street, Exeter, EX4 3PQ
Tickets: Pay as much as you can. Kaleider.com/tickets.