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METRO CHOICE: Art depot
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The Independent - London
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March 31, 1995
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The Alcan factory, in the shadow of Wembley stadium, no longer
turns out rolls of gleaming foil. Now it's a storage depot where
people dump things in the limbo of 650 separate units. Outside,
these are uniform: grey metal walls, red padlocked doors. Inside,
they vary in size from a broom cupboard to a ballroom, and in
contents from a shipment of Indian cumin to a job lot of army
surplus long johns. Brian Eno is fascinated by these discrete
worlds. "They are charged with a kind of intimacy," he says,
"because they all contain things that seem to want to be hidden,
protected. To look into one of these spaces is to look into an
intimate ...