Bill Gates dances with an iPod.
Bush pumps gas.
The Queen on the loo.
It doesn’t matter to the viewer if the portrayal is not the ‘real’ – as long as it looks like him or her – it creates a temporary confusion. This is the confusion the work searches to create. We think we are looking at something real, but we’re not. They are false images of look-alikes of the real thing.
– On photographer/artist Alison Jackson‘s Confidential exhibition.
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