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Scottish painter Alan Michael<\/a> is no stranger to confounding his audience. <\/span>The London-based artist, who is best known for his paintings of appropriated imagery such as kitsch fashion editorials and car advertisements, refuses to clearly explain his work, making them aloof and evasive at times. For example, at his 2008 Tate show, <\/span>Mood Casual, <\/span><\/i>\u00a0he presented a series of paintings of bottles with the word \u201cGrassroots\u201d written in the background of each. When pressed to explain these images, he responded by saying that they were to be read as though they contained <\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/i>particles of sarcasm\u201d and that the text in the background is the name of his local health food shop. See what I mean about evasive? <\/span><\/p>\n

Last weekend, Michael perplexed his audience once again by his choice of film screening at his current solo show, <\/span>Astrology and the City, <\/span><\/i><\/a>at the Cell Project Space in London. Alongside his new body of work exploring the subject of street photography<\/span>, Michael screened the harrowing 2013 documentary <\/span>Bridgend <\/span><\/i><\/a>about the<\/span>\u00a0epidemic of teen suicide that swept through the eponymous Welsh town between 2007 and 2008. <\/span>Directed by American filmmaker John Michael Williams, the documentary tries to uncover \u2014 through interviews with the friends and families involved \u2014 what could have happened in this sleepy town to influence 99 teenagers to take their own lives. To screen Bridgend<\/em> is an odd\u00a0<\/span>\u2014 even disturbing \u2014 choice of film for the painter, so what motivated his decision, particularly as at first glance it seems entirely unrelated to his practice?<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":71552,"id":71552,"title":"Screenshot 2018-10-23 16.40.20","filename":"Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.40.20.png","filesize":1355394,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.40.20.png","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/alan-michael\/screenshot-2018-10-23-16-40-20\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Still from 'Bridgend' (2013) John Michael Williams","name":"screenshot-2018-10-23-16-40-20","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":71549,"date":"2018-10-30 16:33:19","modified":"2018-11-02 11:50:29","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1072,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.40.20.png","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":71,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.40.20.png","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1072,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.40.20.png","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1072,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.40.20.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1072,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.40.20.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":858,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.40.20.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1072,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.40.20.png","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.40.20.png","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1072}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

In the years following the epidemic, the town of Bridgend has assumed a kind of macabre cult status. The internet is flooded with articles and YouTube videos speculating on what could have caused these unfortunate events. Bridgend itself has gained a sombre reputation as a \u2018suicide hotspot\u2019 and was also the subject of a dramatised feature film in 2015. Most reports point to alcohol and the lack of opportunities in the locality as the primary reason for the deaths, but in darker corners of the Web, you\u2019ll find conspiracies about serial killers, or even a theory that the local water supply was contaminated to chemically imbalance the individuals involved. The most interesting idea and most convincing link between this story and Alan Michael\u2019s exhibition, however, emerges through the interviews with the family members involved. They propose that it wasn\u2019t the dearth of future prospects or the water supply, not even the alcohol, but that it was the media, who is partly to blame for the wave of young deaths. <\/span><\/p>\n

With front-page headlines such as “Another Girl Hangs Herself in Death Town” and \u201cSuicide is ‘cool’ says a friend of death cult gang\u201d, it is no wonder that many of the family members argue that it was hostile newspaper coverage of their children’s deaths that created a narrative for many of the vulnerable groups in Bridgend to validate suicide. The British National Press printed full-page spreads about the recently deceased to drum up hysteria and outrage. It does not take a huge leap of the imagination to see that this coverage might have enabled rather than discouraged young members of the Bridgend community, who were already struggling with their mental health.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the saddest parts of <\/span>Bridgend <\/span><\/i>is a scene where a young man called Justin Beecham is interviewed at home with his mother. \u00a0Beecham was a good friend of at least two of the deceased teens and explains why he believes his friends might have done this. \u00a0He turns to his mother and swears outright that he would never kill himself as he had seen the horrendous consequences for himself. Despite this, at the end of the documentary, you find out that in the subsequent months after shooting Bridgend<\/i>, Justin Beecham ended his own life a day before the funeral of his friend, Tom Davies.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":71551,"id":71551,"title":"Screenshot 2018-10-23 16.39.26","filename":"Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.39.26.png","filesize":971642,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.39.26.png","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/alan-michael\/screenshot-2018-10-23-16-39-26\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Still from 'Bridgend' (2013) John Michael Williams","name":"screenshot-2018-10-23-16-39-26","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":71549,"date":"2018-10-30 16:33:02","modified":"2018-11-02 11:50:19","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1038,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.39.26.png","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":69,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.39.26.png","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1038,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.39.26.png","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1038,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.39.26.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1038,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.39.26.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":830,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.39.26.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1038,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.39.26.png","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-2018-10-23-16.39.26.png","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1038}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

What is significant about this tragic turn of events is the way in which the film itself is complicit in the Bridgend epidemic, if only because of how it portrays this town. This is not a thoughtful or particularly empathetic documentary: the director is very present and offers no real insight into why this tragedy might have occurred. Instead, it comes across as invasive and one-sided, capitalising on the vulnerability and grief of the devastated families.\u00a0<\/span>The result is a film that tries to push the cynical idea that \u2018there is a mystery in this strange town\u2019, which is a lot easier for audiences to digest then sincerely acknowledging the suffering of this group of people. <\/span><\/p>\n

As a documentary,<\/span> Bridgend<\/span><\/i> reveals how a <\/span>place is described and presented can dramatically alter its nature \u2014\u00a0as the families testify, their town has been misunderstood and reduced to a single horrific association.<\/span> Arguably, this is the link that Allan Michael is trying to forge between his paintings and the screening of the documentary. His recent work, based on photographs of models hired from an agency, depicted wandering through central London, in the clich\u00e9d manner of classic fashion editorials, could be said to exemplify the same reductive qualities of representation. The paintings depict places and people, who seem familiar, except that they are devoid of nuance and complexity \u2014 their multiplicity is compressed and flattened to meaningless \u2018representation\u2019. \u00a0One painting depicts the highly recognisable scene of a London bus passing outside a window where two shadowy figures chat. There\u2019s nothing revealed about these people, no interior life or visceral feeling, only the brevity of their representation. <\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":71619,"id":71619,"title":"x2g8TypA-1920x1280","filename":"x2g8TypA-1920x1280.jpeg","filesize":222417,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/x2g8TypA-1920x1280.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/alan-michael\/x2g8typa-1920x1280\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"\"Untitled\", (2018) ","name":"x2g8typa-1920x1280","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":71549,"date":"2018-11-02 11:28:42","modified":"2018-11-02 11:29:18","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1285,"height":1011,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/x2g8TypA-1920x1280.jpeg","thumbnail-width":122,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/x2g8TypA-1920x1280.jpeg","medium-width":1285,"medium-height":1011,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/x2g8TypA-1920x1280.jpeg","medium_large-width":1285,"medium_large-height":1011,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/x2g8TypA-1920x1280.jpeg","large-width":1285,"large-height":1011,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/x2g8TypA-1920x1280.jpeg","1536x1536-width":1285,"1536x1536-height":1011,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/x2g8TypA-1920x1280.jpeg","2048x2048-width":1285,"2048x2048-height":1011,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/x2g8TypA-1920x1280.jpeg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":15,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/x2g8TypA-1920x1280.jpeg","wpvr_mobile-width":1285,"wpvr_mobile-height":1011}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

We live in a culture saturated with this type of imagery. We see so many representations of people every day on billboards and in advertisements that they\u2019ve become unreal to us, embedded in the visual fabric of our daily lives. By painting these types of scenes in a photo-realistic style, Michael gives new depth to this style of imagery, shining a light on how we can miss things, how we reduce and over-simplify.\u00a0 Instead,\u00a0<\/span>Michael invites the viewer to overcome their familiarity and rethink what they are looking at. Even if this idea isn’t overtly apparent to an audience, most people will get close to his work just to make sure that they are in fact paintings. This means that his paintings warrant more than a cursory glance. 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“Astrology and the City”\u00a0<\/a>runs until the 11th of November at Cell Project Space.<\/em><\/p>\n

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