"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"Tar and Feathers" (1996)
"Tar and Feathers," 1996
Tree, wooden base, tar, feathers, and various taxidermic animals, 102 x 40 inches (diameter)
Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Tree, wooden base, tar, feathers, and various taxidermic animals, 102 x 40 inches (diameter)
Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
"With some of my work, you can sense that it has a pretty dark tone. As much as I’m engaged in a discourse that is ecological, I’m not one of those artists who is spending a lot of time imagining a better ecological future. I’m more the kind of artist who is holding up a mirror to the present and to the kinds of problems that we have right now. As much as I would like to have amore utopian sensibility, my sensibility tends to the dystopian, to the dark side."
- Mark Dion
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