Marck Leckey: Artist Film Club @ ICA

Leckey's early video work has a heavy stigma of 90's dance music attached to it, which I initially couldn't help being repulsed by as is it is so unbelievably hip and fashionable right now. Once I got over this I was able to enjoy his absolute poetic depiction of this era in , 'Fiorucci made me Hardcore', 1999 (below). Works following this continued to look at aspects of 90's culture, with a rave seemingly in someone's bedroom and, 'Parade', a video named after a men's porn magazine in which Leckey's appearance is seemingly influenced by a phantasmagoric procession of images (stills below).

Then came the favourite for me, 'Green Screen Refrigerator'. An epitome of consumer fetishism, this film based around the artist's self confessed infatuation with a Samsung fridge is a spectacle about a spectacle. Leckey's personal attachment to his work is the thing that inspires me. It doesn't matter that I wasn't old enough to go raving in the 90's, this era was strewn with DIY ethics that are ever present in my own interests, this is enough to relate to and appreciate his great and interesting work.