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.