Collins explores the construction of identity, particularly in relation to the video or television camera. His works often use music, television and pop culture to explore social situations and transcend definitions of language, social status and locality.
Indirectly inspired by Jean Genet’s The Maids, Soy mi madre uses the soap-opera format to explore the intricate power dynamic that exists between un-equals. Shot in México City on 16mm film, Soy mi madre is a study in the aesthetics and politics of melodrama and its disruptive potential to address, within a highly predicated framework, some of the pains and dilemmas of the private sphere.
The Meaning of Style is a single-channel video projection filmed with a group of young Malay skinheads in Penang. The skinhead subculture first emerged in Malaysia in the early 1990s, and Collins was intrigued by the translation of an English working-class subculture into a south-east asian context, finding connections to aspects of Malaysia’s British colonial history and complex racial politics.
(Español) Pasa en las telenovelas, pasa en el arte.
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