A brush with... Jeremy Deller
A brush with...
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The Absurdity of Fantasy
I wanted to upset children, but I ended up upsetting adults. The work brought out these very deep feelings about nationhood and sacrifice and death. There's interesting tensions between the absurdity and fantasy elements of your work. And yes, there's things that could happen in a sort of parallel universe. Some things I do become real in the world later, not by me, but by other people. So I think art can have a prophetic side to an anthropological angle. But in a science fiction way, it's a sort ofScience Fiction isn't it? Predictive art making is like being told what you're supposed to be doing all the time.
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