Consisting of video, sculpture and live performance, this show presents a new chapter in Hutchison’s expansive work, Dead White Man. This ongoing body of work deals with the global trade in secondhand clothes. Every year, twenty-four billion garments are donated to charity: the majority are shipped to the African continent. Most are sold in street markets, but forty percent are dumped on mountains of landfill. In Ghana, they are known as ‘obroni wawu’, Dead White Men’s Clothes. In each chapter of this ongoing work, Hutchison performs the Dead White Man. Mobilising his own subject position - a white Western male...
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Jeremy Hutchison, Artist PortraitJeremy Hutchison (b.1979) is a British artist based in London. Working across performance, sculpture, text and video he intervenes in systems of production and consumption, perverting norms to produce crisis and absurdity. Much of his work intervenes in consumer culture, subverting the mechanisms that sustain it: the langu...
