Artist field note

Isaac Julien

Cinema expanded across multiple screens.

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Western Union: Small Boats

2007

Mediterranean beauty and migrant peril occupy the same sumptuous images, making aesthetic pleasure ethically uneasy.

The five in one idea

Julien uses multi-screen cinema to make history spatial: viewers must turn, choose and connect what no single frame can contain.