PROJECT
Moving Pictures 2022-24
The Zoroastrian Centre for Europe, London / Aziziye Mosque, London / Nanaksar Gurdwara Gursikh Temple Coventry
This RIBA-funded project examines the adaptive reuse of cinemas as places of worship in the diaspora. Using the site-integrity methodology, each congregation were directly involved in the capture and analysis of their own cultural heritage through a series of co-created film installations.
PROJECT
Virtual Assembly 2021-23
Old Kent Road Mosque, Online
Virtual Assembly is an interactive digital model of Old Kent Road Mosque and MANUK (Muslim Association of Nigeria UK) due to the demolition and redevelopment of their mosque on Old Kent Road in Southwark. PROJECT
Siting Cinema 2018-21
Rio Cinema, London / Regent Street Cinema, London
Siting Cinema visually explores the cinema space as ‘site’ through a series of film installations made in independent art cinemas across the UK. PROJECT
Assembly 2018-21
Brick Lane Mosque, London /
Old Kent Road Mosque / London / Harrow Central Mosque, London
Assembly is a series of site-specific installations that perform Islamic prayer spaces, made and exhibited in Brick Lane Mosque (2018 –19); and Old Kent Road Mosque (2019–20).
PROJECT
Screen Space 2016-18
Lokomotywownia, Krakow Poland / Winspit Quarry, Dorset / Space Gallery, Barcelona / The WYE, Berlin
Screen Space explores disused industrial heritage sites across Europe. The history of the region, its old technologies, its witness to the passing of time and the transient are brought back into conversation through the rediscovery and intervention of the site.
PROJECT
Moving Site / Sight 2016-18
MeetFactory Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague / The WYE, Berlin
In Moving Site/Sight the pre-recorded image and sound of the gallery are physically mapped in synchronised time with the site; the viewer’s position within the space is entirely mediated by the machine.
FILM
Checkpoint 300 2019
Bethlehem, West Bank
Checkpoint 300 is a site-specific film made within the main turnstile at terminal Checkpoint 300 in Bethlehem. This is one of the busiest checkpoints in the West Bank, where between 4,000 to 6,000 workers cross daily to reach their places of employment in East Jerusalem and Israel.
FILM
Pestera 2018
Ialomitei Monastery, Romania
Working in collaboration with the monastic community a site-specific film was made and exhibited in the Ialomitei Monastery, an Orthodox Christian temple in Romania.
FILM
To The Sea 2016
MOD Land, Dorset
To the Sea is a continuous, ‘real-time’ tracking shot from inside a disused quarry on military defence land to the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea.
FILM
Vagon Cuesta Brașov to Sibiu 2016
Romania
A documentary film, shot in one take, captures moments from the lives of passengers aboard a sleeper train travelling from Brașov to Sibiu in Romania.