Laurie Simmons, has, since the mid-1970s, staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, mannequins, and occasionally people, to create images with intensely psychological subtexts. By the early 1980s, Simmons was at the forefront of a new generation of artists, predominantly woman,

Conceptual, Dreamy, Playful, Quirky

Christian Marclay is known for his work in a wide range of disciplines, including performance, visual art, and music. Since 1979 he has pioneered the experimental use of records and turntables to create a 'œtheatre of found sound' and has collaborated with artists such as Sonic Youth, Elliott Shar

Repetition

Francis Alys, who trained as an architect and has been based in Mexico City for almost two decades, has worked in film, sculpture, and performance since the early 1990s. Performances such as Paradox of Praxis, 1997, for which he pushed a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it melted

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Jesper Just works primarily in video, focusing on male gender roles, cross-generational relationships between men, and themes of power, redemption, and seduction in works that knowingly mimic Hollywood productions in their aesthetic, dramaturgic, and narrative language. He has had solo shows at Perry

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