Studio Markues Aviv
Barutherstraße 20, 10961 Berlin
mail@markues.net
https://www.instagram.com/markuesaviv
Markues is represented by PSM.
Markues works as a visual artist in the fields of installation, drawing, and text. The realization of their own and others’ experiences is at the heart of their artistic work, making the foundations of social coexistence across differences tangible. Markues employs artistic strategies to destabilize subjectivity.
In the installations, often activated by readings, visitors lie down or dangle and listen. These moments of interruption from everyday life create opportunities to engage with the complex interconnections of our world, both collectively and individually, in an atmosphere of openness and calm. The readings extend the simple, almost formless sculptural vocabulary into the social sphere.
In the works on paper and unstretched fabrics, empathic appropriations executed with highly liquefied colors congeal: literary texts, queer social history, and art historical quotations are dissolved, blended, and delicately reworked. These works are meditations on expression and authorship and refer indexically to subjectivity through gestural painterly traces, often reminiscent of stains, dirt, or abrasion.
Assembled in atmospheric and immersive installations, Markues’ works liquefy the relationship of identity and origin to spoken word, writing, and abstract painting.
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