Anna Barham’ s projection, Superalternating (mot), 2010 consists of daily alternating anagrams of the words 'return to Leptis Magna’. An endless loop of letters and words are projected onto a wall of the gallery. The letters in consecutive movement adopt a performative nature. The narrative perpetually unraveling comes full circle and begins again. Leptis Magna founded roughly around 1100BC was prominent city of the Roman Empire located in Al Khums, Libya. In 1818 parts of the ruins of the city were relocated to Fort Belvedere in Surrey. Effectively the ruins were rearranged on this new site not as a reconstruction, but rather in a configuration that suited their new location.

Anna Barham was born in England in 1974 and graduated from the Slade in 2001. Recent exhibitions include; ‘READATGLIMPSEEN,’ Arcade, London; ‘With Words like Smoke’, CHELSEA Space, London; ‘Prisoners of the Sun’, Frac IIe-de-France / Le Plateau, Paris; ‘Stutter’, Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London and ‘Poor. Old. Tired. Horse’, ICA, London.

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