Mark Leckey

Through Mark Leckey’s essayistic archival video collage, we witness an enigmatic archaeology of the self, the era, and British culture compressed into 23 minutes. Dream English Kid 1964–1999 AD (2015) is a diachronic eclipse of sound, image, and sensibility sourced from the internet’s pop cultural trove; starting with the year of the artist’s birth (and featuring seminal appearances from Joy Division and the Beatles during his youth), it marks the Time to Totality with collective visions culminating in the millennium. The work’s propulsion generates the sense of time collapsing in on itself, probing the consistency of self and memory through one’s culture and the evolution of media from radio, television, and film to the internet. Both highly personal and simultaneously generic, the work is a creative genealogy of the artist that coalesces into a map, if only one were able to decipher it. Dream English Kid 1964–1999 AD serves as an emblematic entry point into Leckey’s oeuvre, exploring of the power of images and vitality of objects within an unknowable universe.

Exhibition is a part of Indigo Festival 2026. More at www.indigo.ooo.