"Often when you're in the process of realizing an image, it's going somewhere else. If that tangent starts going off in a place that feels more exciting, that's what I go with."
"Piccadilly Circus" (2003)
"Piccadilly Circus," 2003
Performance, video, installation, and photographs, dimensions variable
Performance, video, and installation at Hauser & Wirth, Zürich and London
© Paul McCarthy
Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London
Performance, video, installation, and photographs, dimensions variable
Performance, video, and installation at Hauser & Wirth, Zürich and London
© Paul McCarthy
Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London
"I was thinking about Bush or the Queen or bin Laden. In one way, they’re real; in another way, I kept thinking of them like Mickey Mouse or Santa Claus, like media characters or some sort of fabrication. But on the other hand, they were not fabrications at all."
-Paul McCarthy



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