Trading Zones
(2018 –  Present)

Trading Zones is an ongoing project about international finance, with a particular focus on the relationship between the ‘on’ and ‘off’ shore. In the project this is crystalised in the relationship between the City of London, a medieval vestige turned financial centre in the heart of the Greater London, and the Bailiwick of Jersey, a semi-autonomous crown dependency turned financial centre in the English Channel, where I was also Archisle artist in residence for six months in 2018.

Trading Zones examines this relationship through a deep dive into the two jurisdiction’s entwined histories, institutions, cultures and practices, exploring how this particularly relational area of high capitalism has slowly evolved, by design and by accident, over the course of nearly a thousand years. Combining images with texts, documents and diagrams, Trading Zones offers a visual exploration which moves beyond superficial and clichéd depictions of financial centres, and towards one which aims to be as nuanced and complex as the subject deserves.

Trading Zones comprises:

= 500 digital photographs and composite photographs
= 88 diagrams of financial instruments, structures, agreements and organisations
= 7 essays amounting to 25,000 words total length
= Approximately 300 A4 pages of research materials
= Various items of ephemera related to finance
= 20 minute two screen video installation