МАРКУС КОУТС
МАРКУС КОУТС
Marcus Coates lives and works in London. Coates’ vicarious experiences on behalf of others is an inquiry into the degrees to which we can understand, know and relate to the world. His work is often performative using a process of radical empathy as a motivation to create, examine and critique relational tools. He tests actual and perceived boundaries with individuals, communities and with other species. New ways of relating are proposed and often put into practice. His approach is often functional with a social and ecological impact in mind. His recent exhibitions include: The Directors, Artangel Commission, London, 2022; The Limits of Humanity, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, 2021; The World is in You, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2021; Joseph Beuys and the Shamans, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany 2021; The Animal that therefore I am, OCAT Institute, Beijing, China, 2020; The Land We Live In, The Land We Left Behind, Hauser & Wirth Somerset 2018; among others.
Kinship, 2021,
Adult and child frames, red deer skin (slaughtered for meat), horse head (died of old age), badger skin (killed by a car), mountain hare head (found dead), overalls, Lithuanian currency 1992 – 93, Juventus football club jersey, jay feather, eyeglasses, magnolia leaves, grey seal skull, sea creature stickers, Sony camera strap.
Produced by the National Museum of Natural History, Paris
Courtesy of the artist and Kate MacGarry, London
Adult and child frames, red deer skin (slaughtered for meat), horse head (died of old age), badger skin (killed by a car), mountain hare head (found dead), overalls, Lithuanian currency 1992 – 93, Juventus football club jersey, jay feather, eyeglasses, magnolia leaves, grey seal skull, sea creature stickers, Sony camera strap.
Produced by the National Museum of Natural History, Paris
Courtesy of the artist and Kate MacGarry, London