'Settlement'
Video with sound, 34cm x 23cm of land, and legal contract ...between Kunal Singh and Southwark Council, through the solicitors Denton Wilde Sapte.

Courtesy South London Gallery collection and Contemporary Art Society.

Adam Chodzko organised the purchase of a square foot of land in Southwark and gave it as a gift to a stranger. In Chodzko's video work 'Settlement' this tiny patch of turf (the same dimensions as the camera frame that films it), is recorded, whilst the legal document that deals with its transaction acts as a script for the land's new owner; one from which they begin to explore the parameters of their new space. Shifting between a portrait and a landscape 'settlement' becomes a description of both a place and a person and the precarious and elaborate web of issues and rituals that attempts to connect them.