Andrea Crespo

In these selected works from the series Step Right Up, Andrea Crespo presents and critiques troubling and dystopic uses of communication to represent disability. Crespo highlights complex cultural and historical narratives of psychological and bodily being, while examining the ongoing legacy of the spectacularisation of disability through mass media. In Step Right Up, he portrays our current cultural climate as a contemporary ‘freak show’, in which the entertainment industry functions primarily as a producer of ‘freaks of culture’, alluding to how people with bodily, psychological, and behavioural differences are predominantly portrayed negatively.