This event is fully booked, sorry. There are a few places left for the 17 November Abraham Cruzvillegas Reading Room.

Open to everyone, Reading Room draws on philosophy, literature and art criticism to encourage lively debate and reflections on contemporary art and exhibition-making. This autumn’s Reading Room uses novels and texts to expand on themes relating to the Kerry Tribe and Abraham Cruzvillegas exhibitions.

The first session explores themes of memory and perception through Jonathan Franzen’s essay My Father’s Brain, an award-winning narrative of his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease.

Read a response by one of the Kerry Tribe Reading Room participants in the Additional Resources section. Here's an excerpt:

'The time to develop and nurture, to sift and mull over a set of memories to evaluate the past, Jonathan Franzen describes the way the brain and memories work. ‘Each succeeding recollection and retelling reinforces the constellation of images and knowledge which constitutes the memory'.

Kerry Tribe’s exhibition takes me through that process showing the mechanics, and also the gaps – the spaces between the spark of life, the things that can fall between but make up the whole. JF recounts the past, the history of his father’s illness, then the progress of the disease yet recognises that the symptoms were being clouded by his own predetermined attitudes and just the ordinary distractions of his own life.'

Jenny Wylie