A still photo from a boxing match between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney accompanied with a paparazzi photo showing a relaxed looking Obama sitting in the garden of the White House smoking a celebratory cigarette will feature as part of Art Below's platform exhibition at Regent's Park tube station this October.
A closer inspection of the picture will reveal that all is not as it seems. For it was taken last weekend by Alison Jackson, famed for her satirical spoof photographs in which well-known figures are apparently caught unaware. Posed by a selection of presidential lookalikes Alison Jackson aims to depict the run-up to U.S. Presidential election as a series of below-the-belt blows between potential candidates.
Earlier this year Jackson was on the lookout for a Julian Assange. She got one, and did some “great fun” pictures with a fake Hillary Clinton.
Where did she find the lookalike of the WikiLeaks founder? “Oh, that wasn’t a Julian Assange lookalike,” smiles Jackson. “It was Julian Assange. He was very game to get involved. I like to do that sometimes – throw in a real celebrity and see if anyone notices. Nobody knows what’s real and
what’s not any more anyway.”
Photos of posters in tube available from next week.
