Columbus Circle, NYC I, 2020

At the centre of New York City, within an iconic traffic circle named for him, Christopher Columbus stands flanked by the Time Warner Center and the Trump International Hotel & Tower. This public site and its monument occupy a prominent position in ongoing debates around the memorialisation of historical figures, the examination of the contexts from which they emerge, and the question of their continued presence or removal. Against this backdrop, the work attends to everyday moments of life unfolding in the shadow of the monument, scenes that are mundane, absurd, humorous, lonely, dubious and spectacular, and inseparable from the larger debate that surrounds them.