"Scarface" (2018)

“Scarface” (2018) is a 23-minute 3-second, multi-channel video exhibited as a projected installation. The video features four portrait images of the artist falling asleep to the 1983 film of the same name. The film is not seen but can be heard. Muffled in the background, Tony is heard arguing with his Mother. The piece bears all the hallmarks of faulty VHS tapes such as snow, poor tracking, hold lines and static. It serves to explore why we fetishise these aesthetics when they are deemed undesirable in the playback of a tape.