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Untitled by Helen Marten

Untitled by Helen Marten

The Hepworth Wakefield

Lithograph

2017

Edition Size: 85

Image Size: 49.5 x 76 cm

Sheet Size: 49.5 x 76 cm

Signed

Condition: Pristine

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‘The body and its movement through the various volumes of daily space has long been a starting point for artists through history. In this lithograph, the primary lines construct a huddled group of figures, morphing through one another in a manner that could describe an embrace, but also the metaphoric dissolution of one form into many. This body could be one gender or multiples of a state more flexible and deconstructed than any binary classification.

The amorphous blobs and shapes that surround the central protagonists are both landscapes (approximate trees or plant life) and shifting forms whose semi-legibility joins the figures in a refusal to conform to definite meaning. The surrounding shapes disguise yet more faces, sentences and alphabet forms which provide the landscape with a more surreal grammar  this is a landscape in which fabrications are possible and encouraged. There are painterly marks, splashes and drips which combine in a celebration of texture and the authorial gestures of mark-making.

With its softly pastel palette, the lithograph relies on colours not quite reminiscent of our daily lives. They are neither psychedelic nor magical but plausibly just one junction removed from reality. Perhaps this is the space of memory, of dreams, or surrealist apparition. Who are these figures? What are their relationships to us the viewer and where are we all going?’ – Helen Marten

£500.00

The Artist

Helen Marten

Helen Marten lives and works in London. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Turner Prize and the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. She also received the Lafayette Prize in 2011 and the LUMA Award in 2012. Recent exhibitions include König Galerie, Berlin (2019); Tate Britain, London (2016); Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (2016); Greene Naftali, New York (2016); Fridericianum, Kassel (2014); CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2013); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (2012); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); and Park Night Project, Serpentine Gallery, London (2011).

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