Memory Palace is a new commission by Pitzhanger which fills the gallery space with a vast chronological landscape mapping pivotal shifts in human perspective over seventy five millennia.
From the caves in Southern Africa where homo sapiens first left their mark, to the tower in Frombork, Poland, where Nicolaus Copernicus drew the first heliocentric map of the universe in 1543, to the rooms in Clarendon Square, where Mary Wollstonecroft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792, to the street in Montgomery, Alabama where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the segregated bus in 1955, to the steps of the Riksdaghuset in Stockholm where Greta Thunberg began her School Strike for Climate in 2018, the locations and moments represent a personal and subjective cartography and have been chosen by Devlin and her studio team to invoke our collective memories/history, and also to provoke dialogue and debate.