John Stezaker
John Stezaker is fascinated by the power of images and questions the authority of pictures found in books, magazines, postcards and encyclopaedias by directly intervening into their ordinary status. Through the handcrafted act of splicing together, inverting, or simply adjusting an image Stezaker embarks upon ‘a process that cuts it off from its disappearance into the everyday world’.
The collaged works shown here, taken from his City, Mask and Reparation series, have a playful and dreamlike presence reminiscent of the uncanny quality of Surrealist works. Through processes of deconstruction and reassemblage, Stezaker offers a fragmented and mediated experience of the world that creates a strange and disjointed reality.