“Popular culture’s… invisible, people are oblivious to it but that's the culture I live in and that's the culture people speak,” said Mike Kelley, quoted at the end of this, the first major show of his work in Britain in more than 30 years. “All you can really do now is work with the dominant culture, flay it, rip it apart, reconfigure it!”
I felt flayed myself by the end of this show, which a lot of artists are very excited about (Kelley, an American who died aged 57 in 2012, is incredibly influential but little-known outside of art circles, at least in the UK) but which left me reeling and unsatisfied.
