About this work:

Covid-99 (2024) features a photograph of Boris Johnson licking an ice cream during a visit to a Cornish ice cream shop in Penzance in 2021.The artist overlays redacted text from the Partygate report over the image, merging the absurdity of the moment with the gravity of the political scandal.
The redacted text reflects the hypocrisy and contradictions exposed in the report, drawing attention to the disconnect between public rules and private indulgence. By placing the Partygate narrative over the carefree, almost childish image of Johnson with an ice cream, the artist highlights the absurdity of the situation.
This intervention criticizes the disparity between the political elite and the governed, using the juxtaposition of the light-hearted, incongruous image with the seriousness of the redacted report.