Mark Leckey’s films, sculptures, installations, performances and sound works rework the objects and images of contemporary culture in a novel way, translating them into a language that is both individual and universal. Underground and clubbing culture, the world of youth and class issues, the intertwining of autobiography and history, memory and magic, identity and popular culture come together in a heterogeneous body of work, developed by the artist from the early ‘90s to the present, with a unique and original style. Leckey is one of the most iconic and representative artists of his generation and his works convey pressing issues of contemporary life in stories that are anchored in reality and in the physical and bodily experience that each individual makes of it. Dream English Kid, 1964 – 1999 AD (2015) is a sort of mapping of Leckey’s cultural DNA, a “coming-of-age video” made out of a collage of found footage, music and sounds in which personal and collective memories, myth and reality, bodies and technologies, ghosts and dreams emerge in parallel. The result is an intense story, a sort of self-portrait made from anonymous materials (TV clips, YouTube videos, found objects and reconstructions of existing landscapes), in which mystery, folklore and technology converge to define a hybrid dimension somewhere between real and imagined world, between lived experience and dream.