He is Free

Exhibited at the Banquet exhibition, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, 1 September - 8 October 2022.

This station begins with a detailed mapping of the escape sequence from the film, charting the transition from enclosure to freedom in three-dimensional space. The station creates a layered wall of objects and opportunities that reconstruct the film in architecture, drawing from elements of both the concierge desk and the prison, and engages with the idea of smuggling into and out of through the passage of food. Using an array of drawing instruments, the station explores the relationship between drawing and escape, referencing the revolutionary draughtsman, Jean Jacques Lequeu. The machine fabricates this process of escape by dispensing edible treats, along the mapped route of the prison escape sequence and uses Anderson’s famously obsessive elevational treatment and repetition as a device in the architectural mechanics. Buried in the body of the station are drawing implements of both servitude and escape.