STRAATMAN ARMY

During ’Over the Edges’, a group exhibition in the inner city of Ghent in 2000, Vergara’s alter ego Straatman gives a performance. Seated underneath a white canvas in the inner city of Ghent, Vergara (as his alter ego) draws and records the surrounding sounds and comments. The drawings were eventually edited and layered over the top of the performance, along with the images of the military equipment set up in the inner city. The sounds and comments were added as audio.