Bizarre Installations and Figurative Sculptures by Mark Jenkins Upend Notions of Reality
All photographs © Mark Jenkins, shared with permission
“I feel my artwork is at its greatest when it’s subconscious-driven,” says Mark Jenkins. Veering from the witty and absurd to the disorienting and weird, Jenkins’ physique of labor confronts perceptions of actuality by means of the surreal: a life-sized determine climbs a fireplace escape the other way up, limp legs cling from a dumpster, and toast springs up from a sewer grate.
Whether or not put in in alleys and concrete areas or throughout the stark, white area of a gallery, Jenkins’ sculptures are theatrical and logic-defying, and each bit mimics “life to the purpose the place it turns into actual, to me,” he shares. “Creating an alternate actuality has been the answer for my psychological well being. I discover actuality a bit miserable with demise and all, politics, struggle, celebrities, and so on., and that every one the celebs are so far-off we will by no means actually get to know the universe.”
Jenkins is at the moment working in Los Angeles and shortly headed to Le Havre, France, for his subsequent mission. You possibly can comply with his observe and discover an expansive archive of his sculptures on his site and Instagram.
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