Mark Leckey, »Taken-Out of the Place-You-Stand«, 2024

Taken-Out of the Place-You-Stand, 2024
Archival pigment print on Canson Edition Etching Rag
104 x 58 cm (image), 106 x 60 cm (paper)
Edition of 35 + 5 AP, numbered and signed on the back

Mark Leckey (*1964, Birkenhead, UK) is an artist who, since the late 1990s, has used sculpture, film, sound, and performance⁠ to look at pop culture’s ties to technology, often through the lenses of youth, class, anxiety, and a certain wistfulness. 

For Spike, he crafted an image both ancient and future-tense, importing the medieval miniature to the 3D sandbox game: “A polygon figure is suspended above the point cloud of an ancestral bridge. Time is arrested and he just hangs in this latent space. It could be a moment of exalted rapture or he could be plummeting to earth. Either way, he is stuck in this intolerable interval.” 

Recent solo shows took place at Gladstone Gallery, New York; Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo (both 2024); Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome; Cabinet, London; Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf (all 2022); Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2021); Tate Britain, London (2019). He lives in London.