Only a Few Find the Way

2023

Only a Few Find the Way was a site-specific installation set within the disused Victorian tunnel beneath Brighton Railway Station—an 80-metre passageway, historically built for horse-drawn taxis, and usually closed to the public. For three days, the tunnel was transformed into an immersive audiovisual environment, co-created by artist Thomas Buckley in collaboration with Chinese sound artist GUAN.

The installation invited audiences to step into a shifting, luminescent landscape, where light, moving image, and sound reshaped the atmosphere of the tunnel into something both otherworldly and historically resonant. GUAN’s soundscape—minimal, textured, and meditative—drifted through the space, echoing against the tunnel’s architecture and lending the work an uncanny spatiality. Video projections played against the curved brick walls, interlacing rhythm and movement with the site’s deep material history. Light was used sculpturally, not only to illuminate, but to disorient—drawing attention to the textures of the cobbled floor and the curvature of the tunnel while occasionally breaking into strobed sequences, unsettling the viewer’s sense of time and orientation.

Originally intended as a transitional space, Cab Road became a container for pause and reflection. The installation explored themes of transience, hidden infrastructures, and the poetics of urban space—how overlooked or restricted places can hold new meaning through artistic intervention.

Commissioned for Dreamy Place, and presented in partnership with Martin Goya Business (Hangzhou, China), the project was made possible with support from the British Council and Arts Council England.