Mark Manders creates his own world within the existing one. ‘Fragment of a living room, reduced to 88%’ is a fragment of a comprehensive artwork called ‘Self portrait of a building’, which is a work in progress since 1986. The artwork is a fictional building which constantly changes. Manders says: “Walking through my building, I am confronted everywhere with a deep standstill, it’s amazing, the things here surmount my immediate thinking, I am never bored here.”
This theme returns in the piece ‘Fragment of a living room’. The fragment exists of a worktable with a chair and a bucket. There are two figures standing on the table, who at first glance look identical, but on closer inspection they are two consecutive moments of the same figure, like in a film still, with a small change in facial expression and the position of the arms. Because the square slopes up, the artist chose to downscale the piece to 88%, which isn’t directly visible, but nonetheless sensible.
This artwork is part of the Sunday Sculptures series that Stadscuratorium Amsterdam posts every Sunday on Instagram.
