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THE CLOTHES
MAKE THE MAN
Performance
Photos
Video
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Description
In the performance, a series of photographs are animated to depict the artist
dressing up in a wide-range of outfits. This video is projected on a life-size sculpture made of cellophane,
a material that references consumerism and acts as a metaphor for transparent facades.
As the video loops, the artist sits at a table repeating the act of cutting out and
assembling paper dolls of himself in the likeness of the
images projected before him. His face and body are wrapped in plastic to cut off viewers from accessing
the real person who is missing in the two-dimensional representations.
Since no single individual could be all of the personalities depicted,
the outfits become artificially-imposed costumes,
and the identities depicted become stereotypes or caricatures of figures in contemporary society.
Despite this, it is difficult to resist attaching these character traits to the artist.
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