Endless Prospects

Endless Prospects was a specially commissioned multimedia work for Pitzhanger Manor-House, as part of the retrospective of her major works Roshini Kempadoo: Works 1990 - 2004, organised by OVA: the Organisation for Visual Arts (July - September 2004). 

Endless Prospects explores these connections further by considering the way in which architectural spaces and landscapes were constructed, engineered and occupied, from the vantage points, horizons and vistas for dreams and speculation, through to hideaway private places – free from visibility and surveillance.  Pitzhanger Manor, designed by John Soane as his rural retreat, can be seen to reflect this notion of leisure, particularly the specific imagination of the period.  The combination of a digital projection and photographs as a site specific work, simultaneously traces and compares the pursuit of pleasure as both a luxury and a form of escape/survival for the individual forced to labour on the land, or for the land-owning privileged individual occupying it.