Broken Prism

An archaeology of early neoliberal Britain. Pyramidal forms embedded myth to naturalise a new order, fusing imperial nostalgia with consumer spectacle. In collapse, what remains is mysticism and nationalism, unmoored from the project that contained them.

Broken Prism catalogues the artefacts and architecture of spaces constructed during the early neoliberal period in Britain - an invented archaeology attempting to make sense of the recent past and the abstract present.

The sequence journeys through a landscape where myth was materially embedded to naturalise a new order. Pyramidal forms punctuate the horizon - fruiting bodies of a cultural condition that fused imperial and industrial imperatives with consumer spectacle.

As reality shifts and those myths erode, a materialist utopia in collapse produces its own metaphysics. What remains in these spaces is the residue of the past: mysticism, nationalism and fantasy, now unmoored from the project that once contained them.