Biography
Mark Swysen reflects on human conduct. Yet the human figure itself mostly remains absent in his work: the artist wishes to incite the visitors imagination.
Mark embraces the basic proposition of conceptual art: “the idea is the most important aspect of the work”. Wishing to mould this idea into an intriguing shape, the artist is constantly in search of the most eloquent visual stimuli.
Any material or object can be an instrument in his visual language. He snatches everyday objects out of their usual context and charges them with new layers of meaning. The result of his deconstruction and re-assembling questions the one-dimensionality of our perception and opens new possibilities for interpretation.
The emotional load of the surrounding architecture participates in the lecture: hence a manifest preference for "in situ"-projects.
