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From: Chris Guillochon Category: Art Date: 05 February 2009 Time: 06:36 AM Review: Renzo Martens: Episode III, Wilkinson Gallery, Vyner Street I sat and watched it for an hour and a half and my opinion at the end was what a magnificent film. I understood fully the idea Martens was trying to bring across, namely the western world trying to turn African poverty into a commodity; photographers taking pictures of malnutrition and despair and selling them to the media; UNICEF giving rain covers to use as roofs on shelters, yet somehow the covers all have the UNICEF logo on them, like some kind of corporate sponsor. It was a very clever, well thought out and excellent exhibition. (I'm writing a blog with an underlying theme of leaving the banking world and entering the art world: its at www.artistadvisory.co.uk)