A Perfect Duplication

A Perfect Duplication of Being is a single screen video projection without sound. The repeated movement of a floor exercise sequence performed by the artist explores the fleshiness and malleability of the body through its repeated image, where mirror image and repetition in both image and movement play a part in the body's continuous transformation through endless duplication.

Repetitive, pulsing movements and actions emphasise the flesh of the body in an attempt to make the immateriality of the video image appear more material, engaging with and seducing the viewer. In doing so it also refers to seductive ideologies surrounding the body and its relationship to sporting and fitness regimes historically, through the notion of the mass spectacle.

First exhibited at the APT Gallery in Deptford, London in 2004.