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Bats and bedrooms: Jeremy Deller's Joy in People – in pictures

Jeremy Deller: Jeremy Deller: Joy in People.
A walk-through mural of Jeremy Deller's face, by Stuart Hughes. A slideshow in which the artist discusses his work plays inside
Photograph: Linda Nylind
Jeremy Deller: Valerie's Snack Bar (2009)
Valerie's Snack Bar, 2009, Deller's reconstruction of a cafe in Bury market, Lancashire. Tea is served
Photograph: Linda Nylind
Jeremy Deller: So Many Ways to Hurt You (The Life and Times of Adrian Street) 2010
So Many Ways to Hurt You (The Life and Times of Adrian Street), 2010. Deller's documentary about the Welsh wrestler is framed by a mural of a Welsh pit-head and Florida beach. A caped mannequin of Street stands to the left Photograph: Linda Nylind
Jeremy Deller: Jeremy Deller: Joy in People.
A visitor looks at Deller's Melancholy, 1995. Performers will lie on a sofa in front of the wall for the duration of the show, reading books and being melancholy
Photograph: Linda Nylind
Jeremy Deller: Jeremy Deller: Joy in People.
My Failures, a banner by Deller, announces a number of the artist's unrealised projects. His proposal for Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth, a life-size model of British UN weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, was rejected
Photograph: Linda Nylind
Jeremy Deller: Jeremy Deller: Joy in People.
Open Bedroom, 1988-1994, a reconstruction of Deller's teenage bedroom, where he once staged an exhibition while his parents were away. A film about joyriding plays on the portable TV
Photograph: Linda Nylind
Jeremy Deller: Jeremy Deller: Joy in People.
Detail from a corner of Open Bedroom, a reconstruction of Deller's teenage bedroom. The T-shirts, featuring fragments from tabloid headlines, were sold at a shop in Covent Garden, London
Photograph: Linda Nylind
Jeremy Deller: Jeremy Deller: Joy in People.
Exodus, 2012, Deller's 3D film shot in and around a Texan bat cave. The film revisits his 2004 Turner prize-winning film, Memory Bucket
Photograph: Linda Nylind
Jeremy Deller: Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave, 2001
The Battle of Orgreave, 2001 – Deller's re-enactment film about the battle between police and striking miners in the Yorkshire village in 1984 Photograph: Martin Jenkinson
Jeremy Deller: Jeremy Deller, Joy in People, 2011
Deller's banner, Joy in People, 2011, carried in a demonstration
Photograph: Linda Nylind
Jeremy Deller: 'The Search for Bez, 1994' by Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller, The Search for Bez, 1994, featuring the head of the Happy Mondays' dancer and band member. After the band split in 1993, Deller went on a failed quest to locate Bez in Manchester (he was in Ibiza) Photograph: David Levene
Jeremy Deller: 'The History of the World, 1997' by Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller, The History of the World, 1997, a map of the social, political and musical connections between acid house and brass bands
Photograph: David Levene
Jeremy Deller: 'Life is to blame for everything' banner by Jeremy Delle
Life Is to Blame for Everything, banner by Jeremy Deller, is hung outside the Hayward Gallery in London Photograph: David Levene
Jeremy Deller: 'Art Exhibition' banner by Jeremy Deller
Art Exhibition, banner by Jeremy Deller, outside the Hayward Gallery in London Photograph: David Levene
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