JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
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Alice in Undergroundland
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Alice in Wonderland
Brixton House, London
AFTER a modern-day Alice argues with her mum at Brixton underground station, the two are separated when she jumps on a train just as the doors are closing.
Unrepentant at first, Alice soon changes her tune as she finds out she’s not on a real journey but in a jangly Tube dreamland, where a host of strange figures are trapped on a never-ending trip to nowhere.
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