Thaddeus Strode (B. 1964)

Thaddeus Strode’s characteristic humour is readily visible in 78-79, whose title refers to the fragment of appropriated text that is collaged to its surface. This piece of paper with its time and place could as easily refer to a fashion show as to a documentary photograph. The ostensible subject of the work, however, is a collaged cartoon of a vampire carrying a woman. Both of them are perched enigmatically atop a makeshift pedestal constructing an ambiguous narrative that relates to Strode’s pop culture influences.