This installation by artist Gitta Gschwendtner on the Southbank consisted of poems both written and recorded by 50 young refugees now living in Britain. It was a homage to the original 1951 Festival of Britain Lion and Unicorn Pavillion which aimed to describe British character. This piece reinterprets some of the original themes of strength and imagination, through the written and spoken poems of these youngsters talking about freedom. It is genuinely moving and beautiful. You can see the poems dangling from the plinth, and those paper planes are a homage to the 1951 installations flock of ceramic birds (and of course symbolic of the flight to freedom). As you walk around reading the poems you hear the recorded voices of the kids.
Cracking photo. I visited this installation and the photos I took were really unsuccessful. Powerful stuff. The voices and the sound of the papers flapping in the wind. Very impressed by your capture!
