"I use a lot of repetition. And it becomes a filmic way of talking because as you put the same image after the other, even though it’s the exact identical image, everyone sees something changing from one image to the next."
"Costume Bureau" (2006)
"Costume Bureau," 2006
Mixed media, 74 x 108 x 39 inches
Photo by Chris Burke Studio
Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Mixed media, 74 x 108 x 39 inches
Photo by Chris Burke Studio
Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
"My work has a pretty complicated relationship to performance. Part of that is because there’s no traditional audience-performer relationship. But there is a Bouvard-and-Pécuchet element in my work: in a way, I’m working through the natural sciences as a dilettante. At the same time, I’m doing that in a very playful way to probe and question the trappings of authority. I’m examining the trappings of authority while, at the same time, I have some relationship at least to the history of the discipline itself."
- Mark Dion
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