UDDEN SKULPTUR

Marcus has long been interested in fashion and draping, where his body has often become an act for fashion’s different ways of expression and where bodies are depicted wrapped in drapes in paintings. For a couple of years now, he has been working in textile. Linen cloth is draped around wedge frames and creates image space. These sweeps treat the body in a way but can also be seen as an extended painting where the painting’s basic material (wedge frame and linen canvas) is used to explore the boundaries of painting as well as the body. For Udden sculpture, these canvases are transformed into curative figures along the beach. Here they rest and look at the sea like Caspar David Friedrich’s Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer. They roll around like models in art history.

The figure in the work’s German title means figures as well as shaping, shaping, and thus expresses the artist’s interest in exploring corporality in the textile material through transformation of body and clothing - inspired by Gilles Deleuze’s thoughts and concepts in The Fold where binary and divided performances rejected to pave the way for a new reality where one thing can be several, and where definitions are reconsidered.