“A while back I was awarded a studio residency in East London. There I lived and worked in The Bow Quarter – a former factory area turned into a luxurious gated community. At first glance living there seemed very worthwhile but the longer I thought about it, the more I started to see this gated way of living as a metaphor for things happening in my private life as well as for social and political tendencies in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.”