ROMAN ROAD
On-site Installation and Performance
2025
Roman Road was created during the Ethereal Maison Residency, London, UK
On-site Installation and Performance
2025
Roman Road was created during the Ethereal Maison Residency, London, UK
Roman Road is a portal—an object that embodies the temporal layering of a site, a residue of histories buried beneath the surface. It is an artefact that refuses erasure, an archaeological remain left to witness the impending disappearance of the building it inhabits. Acting as a token of the culture that preceded its new beginning, it materialises a moment of acknowledgment—a meditation on what is left behind before something else takes form.
Constructed in situ, the work is a product of a meditative engagement with geography, where material itself becomes an archive. By bringing the layers of the site into the space, Roman Road operates as both a physical trace and an invocation, urging us to reconsider the ways we interact with place, memory, and transformation.
Why Present This Work?
My practice is increasingly drawn to hauntology and the process of unarchiving—thinking through the sedimented layers of culture, intention, and memory that exist within a site. What does it mean for something to disappear? How do we mark, remember, and acknowledge spaces before they are erased, rebuilt, re-contextualised? Roman Road is a response to these questions, a physical gesture that insists on recognition before a space is lost to time. It is a meditation on impermanence and presence, a way to linger in the transition between what was and what is to come.
Prospects for the Residency
This residency offers an opportunity to deepen my embodied engagement with space—to step beyond conceptual reflection and into material interaction. I am interested in how we can access a site not just through observation but through touch, movement, and ritual. How do we connect with the residues of a place, and what does it mean to build collective desires around its memory and transformation?
Through this process, I explore new ways of thinking about locality as an archive—not one that is static or preserved, but one that is continually being written, erased, and rewritten. My goal is to develop methodologies for working with these transitions, allowing the space itself to shape the work as much as my intervention within it.
Why Present This Work?
My practice is increasingly drawn to hauntology and the process of unarchiving—thinking through the sedimented layers of culture, intention, and memory that exist within a site. What does it mean for something to disappear? How do we mark, remember, and acknowledge spaces before they are erased, rebuilt, re-contextualised? Roman Road is a response to these questions, a physical gesture that insists on recognition before a space is lost to time. It is a meditation on impermanence and presence, a way to linger in the transition between what was and what is to come.
Prospects for the Residency
This residency offers an opportunity to deepen my embodied engagement with space—to step beyond conceptual reflection and into material interaction. I am interested in how we can access a site not just through observation but through touch, movement, and ritual. How do we connect with the residues of a place, and what does it mean to build collective desires around its memory and transformation?
Through this process, I explore new ways of thinking about locality as an archive—not one that is static or preserved, but one that is continually being written, erased, and rewritten. My goal is to develop methodologies for working with these transitions, allowing the space itself to shape the work as much as my intervention within it.