You get the point of the title of the Whitechapel’s latest show with the first work that you see. Immediately as you enter you find an untitled work by the late, great Susan Hiller, from 1999. A wooden luggage trolley, stacked with parcels wrapped in brown paper, it’s unassuming at first, as if left there as the show was installed.
But then a plaintive voice emerges from within it, a recording of a prayer sung by one Josef Rosenblatt, from around 1920. The prayer was recited, we learn from a label attached to one of the parcels, “on awakening from sleep, thanking God for the gift of a soul”.
