Him
2002
Modified film directories, 210 × 50 × 4cm
Close-up of page from a modified film directory
Installation view of modified film directories – Mala galerija, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Slovenia
Installation view of modified film directories – Mala galerija, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Slovenia
“In hiding the accompanying texts someone seems quite keen on dressing up his man in a variety of roles without explaining how their situations expand into a narrative context; ‘their’ stories are transposed into a story in which ‘they’ interact, either disparately through a disjointed sequence of activity, or accumulatively – whereby our man becomes a quick-changing performer, a guide through the guises we ourselves assume in the name of fantasy. As those men become this or that man, identity is reduced to the point of identification, but we’re not escaping with any movie, rather we’re hurried on into the next costume’s demands by the insistent someone who has ensured that their possibilities are revealed to the discerning film buffs who won’t be allowed to get away with any facts. A source of knowledge about fictional situations has been taped down to false starts, someone has deliberately defaced these books and the thought that what has been revealed is nearer to the truth is a disgraceful indictment of the original text. Not to mention a slur on pure escapism.”
—Mark Nicholson
‘Something Is Hushed-Up …’
Introduction, exhibition catalogue
S1 Projects, Sheffield, 2002