Founded in 1927, The Spotlight is the entertainment industry’s primary casting resource. Upon acquiring several 1993 editions the artist began by cutting out the faces and rebinding the books; subsequently, video, carbon copy drawings, photographs and site-specific installations have emerged. This re-casting of these Spotlight directory evokes the spirit of surrealist collage, embracing Andre Breton’s definition of Surrealism as a disruptive “juxtaposition of two more or less disparate realities” however this idea of the disturbing ‘third’ image a few steps further by combining a larger succession of fragmentary images together.

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