kultureflash

Issue no. 98

We Are (Untitled), 2001
(DVD, 8 min. loop)

Mark Leckey

Mark Leckey is an artist whose obsessions range from the utmost refined fin-de-siecle decadence to '80s clothes and club culture. He is also, with Ed Liq, Bonnie Camplin and Enrico David, the founder of the band donAteller. If his video Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore is a rigorous research on the world of dance and identification feebly constructed through labels and tones, his last project Parade, exhibited at Cabinet last January, lingers on a mythology sprung from high street shops. Leckey just published a posh-looking catalogue on the occasion of his solo show at the Migros Museum in Zurich. Music escapism and ambiguous sexual identities are the pivots around which Leckey construct a kaleidoscopic succession of images whose fascination has to do with an ungraspable visual seduction. Leckey has exhibited widely in the UK at Tate Britain, the ICA and at the Brighton Biennial as well as in the United States and in Europe.

Mark Leckey (bn. 1964) lives and works in London.

Representation:
Cabinet, London, UK
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, USA

KultureFlash Related Links:
7 Windmill Street W1
Artists' Films On Music Culture
Parade at Cabinet
Sample Culture Now
Parade stills
Various stills

Additional Links:
Soundsystem at Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada (01/2004)
Fast Forward at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (11/2003)
Remix at Tate Liverpool, UK (05/2002)
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore at SMMOA, Santa Monica, USA (02/2002)
Flash Art interview (10/2003)
frieze article on the dandy (2003)
absorb article on Leckey and sampling (2003)
Steve Lafreniere top ten (05/2002)
Artforum article on Leckey (04/2002)