Installation with single-screen back projection on caravan window

(forms part of Hypnodreamdruff, 1996)

Duration : 25 mins

Dave is the thirty-something manager of 'The Dry Cleaners Shop'. He has an obsessive personality and is an avid collector and hobbyist. His hobbies include magic and steam ironing and a great adoration of Lionel Ritchie. Dave lives alone in a caravan and fights loneliness by turning every domestic situation into a theatrical event.

 

Magic was exhibited as part of Hypnodreamdruff at Tate Gallery, London in 1996,

at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York in 1996 and at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

in Germany in 1997.

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