Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

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Fiona Tan has arranged six video screens in a circle as a reference to eighteenth-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s prison model that he termed the panopticon, which means “all-seeing.” Bentham’s circular building divided into cells allowed guards to anonymously survey inmates from a central tower, suggesting that the threat of being observed would keep prisoners under control. In Correction, this powerful gaze is reversed as prisoners and guards seem to watch viewers sitting in the center of the installation.