WALLED UNWALLED

Film Installation
 

Concept & Installation design for Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s film Walled Unwalled at the Tate Modern Tanks.

The 8x2.5m construction captures, amplifies, and examines a barrier suspended in a moment of fragmentation.

Animated by the projected film, it serves to radiate into the centre of the South Tank an illusory, deconstructed reading of the image rendered on its front.

The device is both input and output, imbued with an image which it displays, while simultaneously broadcasting interference and noise in the form of reflections, iridescence and complex layering of ambient light and image both crisp and blurred. The real-time synergy between the film and installation brings to question the agency of barriers, screens, and walls in filtering and delineating the vague, contested, and layered territory between public and private.