Hogarth: London Voice, London Lives

The paintings are a starting point for an exhibition that focusses on daily life and the social and political landscape in London. 286 years after Hogarth’s moral tale, social and cultural changes present a different set of circumstances and social conditions for people navigating life in contemporary London with growing issues of poverty and inequality alongside changes in social spaces including the clearing and cleansing of public space to the competition to be heard online. Building on the theatricality of Hogarth’s staging of the Rake’s encounters in the city, visitors will move through and around a series of rooms or platforms, public and private spaces, both physical and psychological, - from the erosion of public spaces to the mass media and online culture where exchanges are anonymous.