The notion of the screen has been a consistent preoccupation for Pipilotti Rist. Fascinated as much by the limitations of the TV, cinema screens, art-gallery projection spaces, her work attempts to challenge the fact that:

To this end, the exhibition opens with the UK premiere of a re-worked still from her seminal piece Open My Glade (Flatten). Originally designed for one of the large moving image billboards in New York's Times Square the work had to compete within the highly branded commercial space of central Manhattan.

In the series of nine one-minute films, the artist presses her face hard against the surface of the screen and tries to escape. Her face contorts and her high-glam make-up smears across the glass of the camera. Pasted onto the large glass window on our building, the artist turns this previously unused architectural space into a screen from which she is trying to escape.