The late deeply influential Mike Kelley (1954-2012) worked with installation, performance, painting, video, and sound art. Managing to be both popular and academic, his work plays on personal memory and collective culture.

These works loaned by Bernier Eliades are part of a 10 part series of flags, Pansy Metal/Clovered Hoof (1989), that are silk Habotai banners, presenting a set of alternative counter culture banners including skulls, national emblems, religious iconography, Satanism and heavy metal. Even though not stylistically nuanced, Kelley’s dark humour and play of signifiers and meaning plays with the exhibition context.

His work is in the collection of MoMA, Tate, Whitney, Centre Pompidou.