"This video examines how surveillance structures distance within public space, and asks what might emerge if that gaze were redirected toward intimacy and personal memory. Set across a series of urban scenes in London, the work follows a solitary figure whose relationship to place is mediated through recollection, movement, and absence.

Phone conversations between the artist and her mother unfold alongside these images, introducing a parallel space of intimacy that cuts through the anonymity of the city. Memory becomes a way of reinhabiting these environments, disrupting the detached and totalising logic of surveillance.

Rather than observing from a distance, the work repositions the gaze as something partial and situated, shaped by personal histories of migration, labour, and everyday life. In doing so, it reflects on what is flattened or excluded within systems that render public space visible, while remaining indifferent to the lived experiences that pass through it.


"Surrounded by You, Divided from You" has a permanent spot in the  Goldsmiths Women's Art Library collection (Link)