Mark Pozlep
Video and photography- for Voice of nature: THE TRIAL / NATURAL CONTRACT LAB
ongoing collaboration
How do we cope with reality in which every effort to think outside the prevalent socio-political paradigm, offered as best of all possible worlds, is disqualified as mere childish reverie? Where is the boundary between the attempts to leave the confines of the everyday and illusory utopia? Mark Požlep’s works are intense processual explorations, based on long-term examination of his own artistic position. Like an anti-hero of the Beat Generation, Požlep responds to the existential social crisis with his artistic expeditions, which are not driven by an escapist reflex, but rather by a need to critically enunciate his opposition to the status quo. All of Mark Požlep’s explorations can essentially be expressed with the question: what is it that gives us power and motivation for action after the end of the great meta-narratives?