Laurie Anderson & Brian Eno
Self Storage
4 April - 7 May 1995
Acorn Storage Centre, Wembley

On the edge of London's mid-90s urban sprawl, stories told by Laurie Anderson lead visitors through a labyrinth of installations by Brain Eno and a team of Royal College of Art students, the works interspersed with the hidden contents of hundreds of locked storage units.

In the immediate shadow of Wembley stadium stands the former Alcan Foil Factory. The building, in 1995, was operated by Acorn Storage Centres; divided into 650 storage units and filled with the overflow of London's sprawling commercial and domestic expansion.

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I used to spend some time seeing a psychiatrist. I would get there around eight in the morning and come into the office and she sat in the corner and on one side of her was a window and the other a mirror and she could tell by slight movements of my eyes whether I was looking at her or at the mirror. I looked at the mirror a lot and one of the things I noticed was that on a Monday it was perfectly clean and clear but by Friday it was covered with these lip marks.

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