"Tony Oursler combines found objects with video projections to create psychologically discomforting tableaux. 'Hideaway' typifies these hybrid and theatrical works. It was created with performance artist Tracy Leipold, one of Oursler's chief collaborators and muses. Speaking from under the overturned chair, the fallen figure commands our attention while expressing the wish to escape. Leipold brings an extraordinary range of emotion into the deceptively simple and carefully scripted monologue; she alternately confronts and cajoles the viewer, uttering: "I'm getting smaller (and smaller)....Forget this face. Turn away and forget this face....I'm gone. Bye-bye."
