Desert X Biennial

Work: No.1225 Chainlink
Location: Coachella Valley, California, USA
Date: 2023

No.1225 Chainlink is a geometric, maze like installation that invites visitors to navigate around and travel through. The installation responds to the ubiquity of the chainlink fence which Begum noticed as a pattern seen across the Coachella Valley. The fencing is a material that is meant to protect but also carries associations of violence and division. Begum challenges and contemplates these associations by manipulating form and colour, to create a sense of unity and continuity.