Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure

From Somerset House

Enclosure is set within a decaying facility that was once designed for replication—a destination where tourists could temporarily inhabit the lives of others. Each year, on Founding Day , Donors return to either renew or terminate their doubles, known as Cherubs, through a ritual intended to sever the connection between original and copy. Mercy, a starlet who lent her likeness to the programme, arrives to terminate her contract. Instead, the process begins to collapse the distance between them,...