Taking Kaprow’s Sweet Wall as inspiration, Cinzia Mutigli’s modern-day reinvention interweaves stories about sugar and post-colonial Scottish identity.

Mutigli’s film interweaves stories about sugar, addiction, trauma and post-colonial identity. Using sugar as a central metaphor, Mutigli links the historic trauma of the trans-Atlantic slave trade with an exploration of addiction, understood as any repeated behaviour in which a person feels compelled to persist, often experienced as a result of an unresolved childhood trauma.

Using jam as a central metaphor, Mutigli is transforming the Tin Roof Gallery with a repeating wallpaper motif which forms a backdrop to a new filmwork. Part instructional video on how to make jam, this new film explores the cyclical patterns of consumption and comfort, and of addiction and recovery.

To give audiences their own sugar rush, each day, freshly made jam sandwiches are available.