MARCIA KURE

Following her site-specific installation NETWORK , currently on view at the Menil Drawing Institute, and her commission The Amina Project for the group exhibition, PROCESS , at Alexander McQueen London, Reticulation represents an expansion of Kure’s established oeuvre and a deeper consideration of past, present, and emerging systems of power....

Inspired by her recent residency at The V&A, London, Marcia Kure continues to embrace abstraction and figuration through sculpture, watercolor and collage. Making a formal and ideological transition within the work, Kure pushes towards abstraction as a means of negotiating the hyper-realism of modern modes of communication and dissemination. In processing current events from natural to social disasters she addresses abstraction of the physical body through a variety of mediums that grapple with laws of nature and culture.

We feel content and safe within the confines of the world we understand. "Tease" intends to poke holes, cut into, and fragment the perceptual matrix that is our world; daring the viewer to imagine existential possibilities beyond the familiar and the ordinary. "Tease" is a populated space, a universe of hybrid bodies and masked and secret things existing at the very edges of our daily lives.

“Dressed Up” was conceived while conducting research at the Smithsonian Archives as a Smithsonian Artist-Fellow in 2008. The series consists of full-length photomontage portraits of characters dressed in runway mash-ups drawn from two distinct cultural eras: the 19th Century Victorian and present day hip-hop. The Victorian era, the Age of Empire and colonization, while no longer “in fashion” remains salient in the post-colonial age through remnants of oppressive global, political, and economic structures and systems.