ELEANOR MCCAUGHEY
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'There is a policeman in all our heads; he must be destroyed', Pallas Projects and Studios 2017
Solo exhibition
Sound by Strand Unit at East Wall recordings

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The title of the exhibition 'There is a policeman in all our heads; he must be destroyed' has been taken from Adam Curtis’s 2002 documentary series ‘Century of the self’. ‘Century of the Self’ advances the thesis that Freud’s views of the unconscious set the stage for corporations, and later politicians, to market to our unconscious fears and desires.
McCaughey’s work looks at self expression, the way we examine and present ourselves, our attitudes to fashions and our desire for instant approval through the distorting lens of social media. The work juxtaposes past ideas of identity and power with new ideas, taking reference from elaborately embellished Asmat ancestor skulls, Christian iconography to the modern day selfie.

Photography by Steven Maybury


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Typhonian highlife, oil on panel  60x80cms 2017
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Absinthe hour, oil on canvas 80x100cms 2017
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Decoration, oil on canvas 40x50cms 2017
















































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Tinfoil figure, oil on panel  60x80cms 2017
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Figura III, oil on canvas 40x50cms 2017
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Figura I, oil on canvas 40x50cms 2017

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  • Home
  • Work
    • SuperMarket Art Fair 2021
    • Merchandising of memory installation 2021
    • What remains of this place 2020
    • Lockdown 2020
    • Dreadful Sorry 2019
    • Oddly Accurate Things 2019
    • BEDECK 2019
    • The blood-dimmed tide is loosed 2018
    • Like Me 2018
    • There is a policeman in all our heads; he must be destroyed 2017
    • 2016
    • video
  • About
  • Contact
  • Shop
  • Bread in the bone, out in the flesh