JEREMY DELLER
Born in 1966
Jeremy Deller’s art production ranges from video to performance to installation. His work often takes on a political stance emphasized by the collaborative nature of many of his projects, where the value of single authorship is reduced in favor of a participatory dimension which often transcends the settings of art and conventional language codes. The attention to popular culture and folklore in a broad sense has often led the artist to investigate the social mechanisms underlying human relationships, as well as the experiences of individuals in the context of wider collective dynamics. In particular, the historical legacy of Great Britain, where Deller was born, has consistently functioned as a reference in his research, the starting point of narrative deconstructions and re-enactments that connect past, present and future, providing them with new perspectives. By questioning all forms of power (social, political, economic, religious), Deller’s research promotes the idea of freedom of expression, which he considers as a real engine for the definition of common values of coexistence. An example of the frequent connections between the artist’s work and the world of music, as well as of the collaborative character of his production, can be found in the video Bom Bom’s Dream (2016), made together with Cecilia Bengolea, a surreal and dreamlike journey, a free fantasy straddling imagination and reality.