STANDALONE PERFORMANCE

Crumpled Heads, 2025

TYPE: Performance for camera
DURATION: 24 min 27 sec
LOCATION: Artist’s studio, Worcester, UK
YEAR: 2025

Full performance video. Courtesy the artist. Watch on Vimeo ↗

Seated before a makeshift cardboard backdrop, Robinson crumples printed images of his own face and fixes the distorted fragments to a wire-mesh cage. As he works, he sings Smells Like Teen Spirit and addresses himself through an absurd, self-deprecating monologue. He finally wears the construction, allowing his living face to disappear into and re-emerge among its damaged reproductions.

VIDEO STILLS

Still — Robinson seated before the cardboard backdrop, beginning to crumple printed images of his face.

Still — the wire-mesh cage held up, covered in crumpled printed fragments.

Still — Robinson wearing the crumpled construction over his head.

Still — the masked figure gesturing, face hidden among its damaged reproductions.

Video stills courtesy of the artist.

RELATED PAINTING

Flowering in Borrowed Time: painting of a masked head among flowers.

Flowering in Borrowed Time (Thou Shalt Cover Thy Face), 2025
Oil on canvas, 50 × 41 cm