The Colony

Dinh Q. Lê//Artangel Peckham

The Colony was a film installation by Vietnamese artist and filmmaker Dinh Q. Lê on the site of one of London’s earliest cinemas, Peckham’s Electric Theatre which opened in 1908. Lê’s films immersed the viewer in the desolate environment of the Chincha Islands off the coast of Peru. 

The Colony was part of The Artangel Collection, an initiative to bring outstanding film and video works, commissioned and produced by Artangel, to galleries and museums across the UK. The Artangel Collection was developed in partnership with Tate, generously supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The Foyle Foundation and uses public funding from Arts Council England.