Bogeyman
Video projection on a B/W photograph
59 x 66 cm, 2001

The work consists of a black and white photograph and a video projection. The photograph works as a canvas for the video projection. The photograph is a portrait of a little boy and in the video the same boy plays bogeyman. The speed of the video is slowed down to a very slow speed. What one sees is two images on top of each other at times blending into one another and at times separating again.

The central questions of this work are photographic representation, identity and otherness. Like many of my works Bogeyman arrises from the tradition of portraiture. Juxtaposing a moving and a still image makes clear many qualities of a photograph. The photograph seems to suggest one quite permanent identity for the boy. The video denies this. The claim for multiple identities is not a new one, but the work makes clear the impossibility of a single coherent identity.