Slater Bradley
Slater Bradley is an American artist known for his video and photography work that explores themes of identity, doppelgängers, loss, and pop culture mythology. His practice often employs a mysterious double or stand-in figure, most notably in works referencing Jeff Buckley, Ian Curtis, and other cultural icons, blurring the boundaries between the real and the constructed. Bradley has exhibited internationally and is recognized as a significant figure in early 2000s video art.
Artists in conversation
Doug Aitken
Aitken similarly works in video and photography with a melancholic and atmospheric sensibility, exploring themes of identity, memory, and pop cultural mythology through cinematic and immersive installations.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Taylor-Johnson's video and photographic work shares Bradley's preoccupation with celebrity mythology, grief, and the constructed nature of iconic figures, often employing a dark and emotionally charged aesthetic.
Mark Leckey
Leckey similarly interrogates pop culture iconography and subcultural mythology through video and mixed media, blurring the boundary between mourning and obsession in relation to cultural figures.
Artists who inspired them
Cindy Sherman
Sherman's foundational use of the stand-in, the double, and constructed identity in photography directly informs Bradley's deployment of a mysterious doppelgänger figure as a conceptual and emotional device.
Andy Warhol
Warhol's transformation of celebrity and cultural icons into mythological and reproducible images is a clear conceptual predecessor to Bradley's obsessive and elegiac engagement with figures like Jeff Buckley and Ian Curtis.
Christian Boltanski
Boltanski's use of photography and archival imagery to evoke loss, absence, and collective memory parallels the mournful and commemorative dimensions of Bradley's video and photographic installations.