Backyard Biennial: East review – this morose and meaningless exhibition gave me a migraine

Whitechapel Gallery, London I feel bad for the artists whose work has been crowbarred into a wonky show about migration, protest, climate and identity It’s rare that an exhibition is so bad you feel compelled to text a friend saying “you wouldn’t believe the garbage I just saw” as soon as you get out. And if you can walk around this badly explained, undercontextualised, barely linked, poorly thought through mess of a show without getting a migraine, you have a stronger constitution than me. This is an exhibition about east London. Or maybe it’s about Britishness. Or migration. Or the climate c

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