Exhibit B exhibition shows its true colours

Forced to close in London by protesters who hadn’t even seen it, creator Brett Bailey tells Caomhan Keane it is the audience who are on display in Exhibit B

Shut down on the Southbank and requiring the protection of 300 riot police when they performed in Paris, one of the most controversial shows in recent times sets up shop in the Blackbox Theatre in Galway as part of the cities International Arts Festival.

Exhibit B, an instillation by Brett Bailey, a white South African, sets out to show how ‘the other’ is represented through ‘the Western Gaze’ in order to legitimise the plundering and annexing of their territories, by quite literally putting people of African or Afro- Caribbean descent on display.