DISPLAY CABINET VI

Always keep everything nicely in view. No special incidents: the model of a security or control centre with many monitors and control consoles shows a compressed collection of images on the colour and formal language of the 1980s: large volumes, rounded corners, deep brown and rich orange. A montage drawn from the artist's own recordings, foreign archives, vernacular photography, painting, still and moving images. Through this condensation arises a precise formulation of something entirely vague. Perhaps the staged quality of a bygone era, which in historical retrospect appears so seductively compressed and free of contradiction, re-staged with all its unfulfilled promises and contradictions.