Location: Amsterdam - 2009
This single-channel video is commissioned by Art Aid Foundation in Barcelona.
‘Dead Man Walking’ presents us with a person whose physical appearance has undergone a radical change... they explore feelings of hatred, despair and impotence in the face of the effects of antiretroviral treatment on the body... “Dead Man Walking” looks at the dysfunction between appearance and identity in a society that places extreme importance on physical beauty, and at the difficulty of accepting an image that does not match what we feel, but that is the image of our own body and therefore impossible to escape.‘Dead Man Walking’ presents us with a person whose physical appearance has undergone a radical change... they explore feelings of hatred, despair and impotence in the face of the effects of antiretroviral treatment on the body... “Dead Man Walking” looks at the dysfunction between appearance and identity in a society that places extreme importance on physical beauty, and at the difficulty of accepting an image that does not match what we feel, but that is the image of our own body and therefore impossible to escape.
This installation is made possible by the Mondriaan Fonds