Slater Bradley & Ed Lachman
17 Mar - 07 May 2011
SLATER BRADLEY & ED LACHMAN
Shadow
17 March - 7 May, 2011
Over the past 12 years, Slater Bradley has produced a unique and singular line of work, which culminates with the project he presents in his new exhibition. In 1999, at the age of 24, he met his doppelganger, Ben Brock, in a New York nightclub. From that moment on, they began a collaboration which lasts until today. In videos and photographs Brock has enacted Bradley enacting different tragic figures of the collective teenager imaginary: Kurt Cobain, Ian Curtis, or Michael Jackson. Together with references to the Star Wars saga, or to fictional characters such as Holden Caulfield, they inform the collective imaginary through which Bradley exorcises his own biography, while at the same time reflecting on an entire generation.
Shadow
17 March - 7 May, 2011
Over the past 12 years, Slater Bradley has produced a unique and singular line of work, which culminates with the project he presents in his new exhibition. In 1999, at the age of 24, he met his doppelganger, Ben Brock, in a New York nightclub. From that moment on, they began a collaboration which lasts until today. In videos and photographs Brock has enacted Bradley enacting different tragic figures of the collective teenager imaginary: Kurt Cobain, Ian Curtis, or Michael Jackson. Together with references to the Star Wars saga, or to fictional characters such as Holden Caulfield, they inform the collective imaginary through which Bradley exorcises his own biography, while at the same time reflecting on an entire generation.