Richard Phillips, Robert Pattinson 2010, Oil on Linen, 241.3 x 198.1 cm (image: artnet.com)
Richard Phillips’ Most Wanted, previously on view at the White Cube in Hoxton, masquerades as a critique of consumer culture when in fact it is entirely subsumed by it. It presents itself as an interrogation of our desires but ultimately has nothing of value to say because it is bound to the very culture it critiques.