Dutch photographer Teun Hocks envisions pictures conceived primarily as conceptual constructs and develops them into theatrical tableaus that are at once amusing, bizarre, and unsettling. His ability to seamlessly manifest contradiction, idiosyncratic dysfunction, and psychological turmoil in his surreal and absurd images emerges from pictorial devices and allusions in which the central figure is the artist himself; an actor who expresses familiar behaviours, but translated into the language and terms of the cartoon. This catalogue is published in conjunction with retrospective presentations of work by Hocks at the Stedelijk Museum Breda and Torch Gallery in Amsterdam.