This richly illustrated catalogue accompanies the first US retrospective of PaulPfeiffer?s acclaimed multi-disciplinary practice at The Geffen Contemporaryat MOCA. Presenting era-defining photo and video works alongside his latestexperiments in sculpture and installation, this volume reflects Pfeiffer?s use ofa wealth of recent technologies to dissect the role that mass media plays inshaping consciousness. Throughout his work, Pfeiffer interrogates how imagesmight shape the spectators who consume them. In his own words: ? The questionalways comes up: who?s using who? Is the image making us, or do we makeimages?? His works mediate on faith, desire, and the ways both are enmeshedin a contemporary culture transfixed by celebrity. This authoritative volumespans twenty-five years of practice and includes essays by Tom Gunning andMarian Pastor Roces as well as conversations with the artist and Chanon KenjiPraepipatmongkol and with the artist, Julie Mehretu, and Lawrence Chua.Designed by Counterspace, Michael Worthington