Alongide his solo exhibition at Art Exchange, University of Essex, Imran Perretta will expand on the ideas and motivations behind the making of his Jerwood/FVU Awards film 15 days.

At a time when social and geopolitical upheaval has prompted the mass displacement and migration of people across the globe, 15 days examines how the face of the refugee has been dehumanised, often anonymised, and frequently demonised. The work is inspired by the time that Imran spent in Calais and Dunkirk with former inhabitants of the refugee camp that became known as the Jungle, and are now living rough in the surrounding woodland. The title of the piece is not a measure of the length of his stay there but rather the alias of one of the people who he became friends with (no one goes by their real names), and a comment on how time slips by when waiting in limbo, in the hope of a new and better life.