
Duncan Campbell
In his latest exhibition—comprising three films and a set of screenprints— Duncan Campbell juxtaposes television network footage with dramatic reenactments while using structuralist techniques, for instance incorporating scratched film and garbled audiotape, to undercut intimate biographical monologues. The effect arrived at is a kind of melancholic antiportrait, one whose viewers may well understand Campbell’s subjects less and less as the films progress. Best illustrating this point is Bernadette, 2008, one of the three films on view, which takes on Bernadette Devlin—the Irish republican