I bet you look good on the dancefloor

An Exhibition of paintings, video and photographs exploring the relationships, dialogues and loss of inhibition that happen unexpectedly between people when given the chance to hide behind borrowed personas.

I invited a group of people to come dressed as the personas they would most like to be portrayed as in an artwork. I dressed my studio with fabrics and music and put on a spread. As the evening progressed, the invited guests lost themselves to their borrowed identities and I filmed the evening.

The titles for the works and for the exhibition itself, are taken from the playlist of the evening.

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"Just Like Heaven" (The Cure)

144x112cm

Oil on paper

 

"Why did we fire that gun" (Waldeck)

86x160cm

Oil on paper

 

"Jimmy's Gang" (Parov Stellar)

156x112cm

Oil on paper

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 "You don't dance to tekno anymore" (Alabama 3)

60x160cm

Oil on paper

 

"I bet you look good on the dancefloor" Arctic Monkeys

140x195cm

Oil on paper

 

"Jolie Coquine" (Caravan Palace)

116x141cm

Oil on paper

 

"I wanted to write you a love song" (Cat Empire)

101x119cm

Oil on paper

 

"Say hello, wave good-bye" (Nouvelle Vague)

110x150cm

Oil on paper

 

"Booty Swing" (Parov Stellar)

160x140cm

Oil on paper

 

"Frenzy" (Screamin' Jay Hawkins)

90x60cm

Oil on paper

 

"It's not over (Death or the toy piano)" (Puppini Sisters)

110x160cm

Oil on paper