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Be True To Your Oblivion, 2011
Installation view, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
Working across a number of media including digital print, wall
drawing, video, sculpture and installation, Mark Titchner’s practice explores systems of belief, both secular and spiritual,
often focusing on the marginalized, discredited or forgotten
ideologies and objects we place our faith in. Using the impersonal
language of the public realm, ranging from the quasi-mysticism
of corporate mission statements to the maxims of revolutionary
socialism, his work exhorts us to believe in it. Motifs taken
from advertising, religious iconography, club flyers, trade
union banners, prog rock and political propaganda all vie for
our attention. The common denominator of this quest for idealism
is a quest for enlightenment; a desire for some form of transcendence;
and yet, abstracted from its original context, the message appears
drained of meaning. We know that we are being asked to respond
but the purpose is unclear, leaving us only with the formal
means of exhortation and our own desire for meaning.
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Be Angry But Don't Stop Breathing, 2011
scaffolding, staging, PA system, microphones, t shirts, rug, loudspeaker, monitor and DVD, charred wood and concrete
Dimensions Variable
Banner size: 300 x 400 cm
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N (I) B, 2011
blu-ray projection
54 Mins
Installation view, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
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We Are Everywhere, 2010
aluminium and fixings
222.5 x 148 x 12 cm |
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The Story of an O/From Love to Hope, 2009
cast concrete
dimensions variable |
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Installation view
Nothing is Forever
South London Gallery, London
2010 |
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Installation view
Nothing is Forever
South London Gallery, London
2010 |
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Momma
(I)
2007
steel, wood, acrylic paint, plastic, iron filings
on steel plinth
58 x 44 x 40 cm |
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Poppa
(II)
2007
steel, wood, acrylic paint, plastic on
steel plinth
55 x 40 x 40 cm |
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Installation
view
The Eye Don’t See Itself
Vilma Gold
2007 |
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Artists
Are Cowards
2002
DVD loop |
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Installation
view:
Ergot Ergot
2006
wood, steel, motors, electrical and
mechanical components, DVD loop,
monitors and speakers
Turner Prize 2006 |
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How
To Change Behaviour
(Tiny Masters Of The World Come
Out)
2006
Commissioned by Arnolfini with support
from The Elephant Trust |
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Installation
view
How To Change Behaviour
(Tiny Masters Of The
World Come Out) (detail)
2006
Digital print, Wood, paint, metal, magnets,
electrical
components, quartz crystals
Tuner Prize, 2006 |
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When
We Build Let Us Think That
We Build Forever
2005/6
Installation view
IT IS YOU, Arnolfini, Bristol |
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Voices
You Cannot Hear Tell
You What To Do (edit)
2004/6
59th Minute commission
Times Square, New York |
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Por
Que Hay Algo En Ligar De Nada
(Why is there Something)
2004-2005
digital print on diabond with carved
wooden frame
200 x 70 x 5 cm
installation view |
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The
Memory Of Our Will Will Wash
The Dirt From Your Feet
2003
lightboxes, carved wood, metal, concrete,
amplifier, microphone, water, speakers
185 x 351 x 30 cm |
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