The two share symbols of protection and care, but also threat, vigilance and resistance to contamination. Some of the visual languages of Covid is shared with that of the anti-terrorism law, and the work explores the crossovers between these rhetorical approaches.
Employing stencils created for the production and installation of her solo exhibition There Is No Alternative at The Showroom in 2019. The project, Khan-Dossos’ first in a UK public institution, featured her on-going research into the complex context of the UK government’s development of pre-crime and surveillance policies, in particular Prevent, questioning the politics of representation and the positioning of care that the strategies around those policies generate. The stencils are based on the logos used to represent the Prevent policy across the UK.
