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The Barbican’s 2018 season The Art of Change weaves multiple stories and experiences together across all of the Barbican’s art forms to explore changing attitudes, power dynamics, relationships and the treatment of individuals and groups considered to be outside of the mainstream. With new events announced today, the Barbican’s Director of Arts Louise Jeffreys, shares her highlights from the packed programme as well as hopes for the year ahead.

Image: MOOT MOOT, image by Laurie Brown

Sam Laurence is an installation artist with a particular interest in sight. Blind in one eye from the age of 18 due to a damaged optic nerve, he uses the medium of installation to explore his own understanding of sight while allowing others to question their vision, perspective and relationship with their eyes.

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