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Shona Illingworth: The Amnesia Museum, FACT, 2015. Photo by Jon Barraclough
Shona Illingworth: The Amnesia Museum, FACT, 2015. Photo by Jon Barraclough

Shona Illingworth: The Amnesia Museum, installation shot at FACT, 2015. Photo by Jon Barraclough

The Amnesia Museum - an archive of forgetting - draws together film, photographs, drawings, objects, artefacts and documents to map the landscape of amnesia as it unfolds in the present, and shapes our capacity to imagine the future.

Shona Illingworth's Lesions in the Landscape is a powerful new multi-screen installation revealing the devastating effects of amnesia on one woman, Claire, and the striking parallels with the sudden evacuation of the inhabitants of St Kilda in the North Atlantic in 1930. This living museum, which represents the phenomenon of amnesia through a wide range of objects and areas of research, includes 3D casts, neuropsychological diagrams and recordings representing the impact of Claire’s lesion on her memory function, objects and footage taken directly from St Kilda, and Claire’s own drawings mapping her amnesia.