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Mark Swysen’s work focuses on human conduct. Yet the human figure itself remains conspicuously absent: the artist wishes not to render an image, but to enhance imagination.
Mark embraces the basic proposition of conceptual art: “the idea is the most important aspect of the work”. But the sole idea is not sufficient. The shape in which this idea is moulded has to attract, intrigue and give rise to a query for the content.
Any material or object can be an instrument in his visual language. Symbols from our collective cultural memory and basic instincts play their role, subcutaneously.
Simultaneously the surrounding architecture and the emotional load of the location participate in the lecture: hence a manifest preference for "in situ"-projects.