Description
Mark Metcalfe’s practice features characters that challenge fixed ideas about trust, faith and the unknown, becoming totemic of a deep drive to externalise hidden things through characterisation. Mark’s work reflects a preoccupation with memory and nostalgia, where an image can posit a peculiar melancholy or sense of the uncanny, through a memorialization of the past, constructed through archetypal heroes, tricksters and bizarre phenomena. The Ectoplasm Structure series applies this approach to alleged emanations of ectoplasm. Structure 2 shows an alleged emanation of Ectoplasm during a seance just after the war. Some say the substance is nothing more than cheese cloth and it is such performative aspects of showmanship with a touch of the charlatan that speak to the artist’s favoured treatment.
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