Panopticon Letters: Missive I

Panopticon Letter's Missive I, 2012, 16mm/Digital, 23 minutes (extract above)

Panopticon Letter's Missive I, is a single screen work that explores ideas of memory, techniques of the body and colonialism, within the tradition of landscape painting. In the film, footage of the river Thames in London is altered to bring about a false relationship between sky and water. This is set against the technical descriptions of the architectural plans for an ideal prison as read from 'The Panopticon Letters' of Jeremy Bentham (1748‐1832), who had first identified the Millbank site for the construction of his Panopticon. The darkness of the severed horizon‐line allows different modes of address to emerge within a correspondence of letters, reformulating a multitude of narratives of time and place.


Exhibitions
2019 Solarized Chobi Mela X, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2016 Contents Under Pressure, Allan De Souza and Alia Syed, The Van Every/Smith Galleries and Davidson College, North Carolina, USA
2014 Pump House Gallery, London
2014 Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts and Design, London 
2013 5th Moscow Biennale
2012 Talwar Gallery New York, USA

Screening
2017 Architecture of Space, Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh  

Reviews
New York Observer: Will Heinrich (2013)