BATMAN AND ROBIN

DEAN BUTTERS

Exhibition Dates: 16 May 2014 - 21 June 2014

Through the tropes of Batman and Robin Dean Butters’ portraits examine ideas of protracted adolescence and social disconnection. The series looks at the relationships he develops, and the repeating patterns that they form. Who we are is fundamentally bound up in the fictions and stories that we consume, however, in seeking moments of weakness, isolation and self-destruction, these works ultimately talk about the failure of identity.

Image: Dean Butters, I Thought I Would Be More Than This, 2013 -14, Lambda print, edition of 10, 80 x 120cm