Parade

Mark Leckey

Archive Exhibitions (24 October to 30 November 2003)
A video installation with an unnerving sound: a parade of consuming pleasures in psychedelic decadence.
For the Brighton Photo Biennial and to accompany its major group exhibition Make Life Beautiful! at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, artist Mark Leckey presented Parade, a sound and video installation at Fabrica. Continuing the artist’s ongoing exploration of style subcultures and other contemporary icons, Mark Leckey’s single-screen projection work is a stylish and provocative meditation on the theme of the metropolitan dandy. Intriguing and disturbing, Leckey’s oblique video narrative is a dark and claustrophobic vision of a man inhabiting a world of hallucinatory desire. A mind-rattling sound of a slightly distorted ‘P…RADE’ exasperates its visual sense of predatory fantasy.

Parade is a major new work by Mark Leckey and is commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella in association with the Brighton Photo Biennial. The debut presentation of Parade will be at Fabrica, to accompany the Brighton Photo Biennial’s major group exhibition, Make Life Beautiful! The Dandy in Photography at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.

Continuing the artist’s ongoing exploration of subcultural style tribes and other contemporary icons, as reflected in acclaimed and influential works such as We Are (Untitled) and Fiorrucci Made Me Hardcore, Mark Leckey’s single-screen projection work Parade is a stylish and provocative meditation on the theme of the metropolitan dandy. Brimming with literary/historical allusions, but equally deftly located within a distinctly contemporary demi-monde of visual art, music and fashion, Leckey’s oblique video narrative speculates on the kind of figure that dandies might cut in the not-too-distant future.

This work is commissioned by Film + Video Umbrella in association with the Brighton Photo Biennial.

About The Artist

Mark Leckey (born 1964) is a British contemporary artist, working with collage art, music and video. His found object art and video pieces, which incorporate themes of nostalgia and anxiety, and draw on elements of pop culture, span several videos. In particular, he is known for Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) and Industrial Light and Magic (2008), for which he won the 2008 Turner Prize.

His work has been widely exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, in 2008 and at Le Consortium, Dijon, in 2007. His performances have been presented in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art, Abrons Arts Center; at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, both in 2009; and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, in 2008. His works are held in the collections of the Tate and the Centre Pompidou.

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Brighton photo biennial
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