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Greeks Participate in ‘Dickens and London’ Exhibition at Museum of London

The exhibition ‘Dickens and London’ was organized by the Museum of London in order to celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. This major Dickens exhibition explores the author’s links to the English capital.

The exhibition opens with an impressionistic space in which video projections and sound combine to capture the way in which Dickens worked. He was an insomniac, in the habit of roaming the streets of London through the night, absorbing material for his stories. With a near-photographic memory, Dickens would plot the tales minutely in his head. His ear for the nuances of speech was also acute, and the voices he heard on his nocturnal rambles are accurately reflected in his writing.

Greek presence in this exhibition is very strong, since three people from Greece are working for its organization and promotion. Elpiniki Psalti is the Display and Exhibitions Project Manager at the Museum of London, Nikos Gogolos is the Registrar of the Museum, and Helen Ganiaris is the Conservation Manager of Objects at the Museum of London in the Department of Conservation and Collection Care.

The exhibition closes with another contemporary commission, inspired by the long journeys through the London night that fired Dickens’s imagination. William Raban’s 19-minute documentary film, ‘The Houseless Shadow’, has as its soundtrack a reading of Dickens’s essay ‘Night Walks’, about the people, places and thoughts the writer encountered as he walked from dusk to dawn through a London night. Dickens’s writing emerges as remarkably contemporary, and the troubles of the city, as documented by Raban, distressingly unchanged.

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