Magdalene Odundo review – quietly devastating defiance in an English stately home

Houghton Hall, Norfolk
Ceramics by Odundo at this Palladian mansion sit seamlessly yet purposefully alongside existing pieces, symbols of remembrance and the venue’s legacy of slaveryStanding proudly in the middle of a room of 18th- and 19th-century English heritage portrait paintings at Houghton Hall is a burnished terracotta vessel. The work, by Magdalene Odundo, stuns by its simplicity. As the bygone residents of the Palladian mansion depicted in the paintings gaze down superciliously,