Connections

Forgotten space

This exhibition, down in Cardiff Bay, seems to have been forgotten.

When I went to visit it over the weekend, it wasn’t even open. No-one was expecting visitors. This is a shame, but also not surprising. I was let in eventually by a resident artist, who was making tea. It was not a good start.

The exhibition is quite small and takes no more than half an hour to look around. It focuses on the stories and history of the Black, Asian and Jewish communities in Britain. The exhibition suffers from its lack of space, the main exhibition is squashed into a back room, while the central space focuses on the arts centre itself.

Within the exhibition, I was disappointed by how London-oriented it seemed. I expected something in Butetown Arts Centre, a symbol of local cultural diversity, to be more local.

I would recommend this exhibition to anyone who’s interesting in seeing more of Cardiff than the Student’s Union and number of bars. This exhibition though, barely scrapes the surfaces of ethnic diversity, which is surprising in an area of Cardiff that is historically diverse.

Aisling Tempany