Helen Marten Publications

In her edition “Untitled,” a drawing collage that Marten digitally decomposed into several basic colours and translated back into a work of graphic art by lithographing one painted layer after another.   The analog technique endows each print with tiny irregularities and fingerprints, painterly traces of the printing process that breathe the same life into the figures that distinguishes the Turner Prize-winning artist’s works. A central figure sits haloed and disembodied in the centre of the page, his gaze fixed on a moment beyond the frame. 

   The figure inserts himself into the action, breaching the theatre’s traditional fourth wall. Repetitive eyes and open mouths, crudely sketched nudes, the debris of leaf and flower pressings and all frame the scene and underscore its dramatic quality.

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