“It's important to realise that the people I'm working with have a symbolic function in my artwork that is specifically directed at the audience. In the Doppelgänger series of works this resulted in my making a series of co-operations with people that I considered had a particularly powerful, symbolic projection in the culture of the moment. I thought they could represent, for the audience, very strong stereotypes in the culture of normality; one was a stockbroker, one was a civil servant, and the other was a shop assistant, so they had three very normal kinds of daytime occupation. At 5-30, or something like that, they transformed themselves into other persons. I mean transformed themselves not only in terms of dress, but I feel emotionally and psychologically, and in terms of the kind of contexts and places they then frequented....”
Three individuals with public-facing jobs change their neat and professional appearances after clocking out to go punk; b/w photographs documenting the trio’s professional versus their authentic selves as well as the many high-rise buildings of the city in which they live and work, in brief texts fragments they explain their dual lives.
Soft cover, 21 x 15 cm, 44 not numbered pages, London 1985
