Farah Al Qasmi @ Art Exchange, Essex

‘Abort, Retry, Fail’ takes its title from the computer error message that flashes up on Farah Al Qasimi’s now defunct family computer. It connected her to the outside world and was a portal to escape from reality through gaming – as a pirate, a gun slinging biker, or a tiny ball bouncing off the edges of the screen.   This exhibition brings together photography and film in an index of attempts to transcend the natural world through entering fictional realities.