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Marc Lafia
In his installations, films, prints, drawings and paintings, ml has continued to ask what is the event of art and the situation or object of its experience. That...
Guangzhou Triennial 2023
I want to give description as to how these paper sculptures titled, Extinction, Extension A New Slice of the Geologic Record were invited to the Guangzhou...
Everything is Everything and There is Nothing Else
Perhaps there is no more pressing issue today than exile. Be it due to geopolitics, climate change, economic displacement, the expression of identity and...
Practicing Human
Practicing Human is a variable performance and theatre work: a work in many modes, a visually stunning and immersive project that takes viewers on a...
The Immense Journey
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that...
Drawings CoV-2
Much of art and art history has dealt with death, plague and isolation, confusion and delirium of it. Drawing records and registers the movement of the...
Making Sense
Making Sense Making Sense When the curators of the 1GAP Gallery — at Grand Army Plaza, the glass and steel Richard Meier building on Prospect Park ...
In What Language to Come
In What Language to Come In his new body of work Marc Lafia invites us to deeply immerse ourselves in our senses. Best known as a conceptual photographer and ...
Dystopia And Its Content(ment)s
Dystopia And Its Content(ment)s In his seminal (1929) book, Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud enumerates what he sees as the...
Filter The Publc
Filter The Public Art as Invention 3, Public Relations These colorful blackboards solicit audience feedback, creativity, and self-expression...
Eternal Sunshine
Eternal Sunshine, 2011-2012 In Eternal Sunshine at the Minsheng Museum of Art, Shanghai, Marc Lafia in his solo show presents a series of works that reflect...
#Image
#Image #Image In #image, Marc Lafia presents new work that explores the way network culture restructures the relationship of image and subject....
The Tumblr Room
The Tumblr Room In these works, I want to capture something all too extraordinarily familiar but made material and public in large scale photography...
Cooked Raw
Cooked Raw Cooked Raw In addition to photographic, video and installation works over the years Marc Lafia has made a good many drawings and...
Concatenations
Concatenations There was a shift in the twentieth century in the meaning of materialism, away from realist depiction to an emphasis on matter itself....
#palimpsest, totems
Totems In this new series of work, totems (#palimpsest), Marc Lafia playfully brings together objects of luxury, Igbo spirit statuary and virtual...
Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale
Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, We have Never Participated, 2014 On the occasion of being in the 8th annual Shenzhen Biennale entitled, 'We Have Never...
27
27 To pass through one's 27th year is to become an "adult." James English Leary, a 27 year old artist and member of Bruce High Quality Foundation invites...
New Media Works
Here are select net art pieces, computational films, conceptual and photographic works. Cyberia, 1994 https://vimeo.com/26328605 Alphaville Hotel...
Image Photograph
Image Photograph Below is the forward to the book recently published by Punctum Books and on the right select pictures. Photography as an...
This Moment, Social Media
This Moment Already Always Recording In these works I explore public platforms for communication and social networks through an aesthetic and conceptual...
Hi How Are You Guest 10497
Hi How Are You Guest 10497, 2011 'Hi How Are You Guest 10497'; in this video work, a woman, living alone in Manhattan, tries to find a way out of her solitude...
Select Works
There is so much writing on my site, I want here to present a visual essay of certain works leading into works shown in...
PICTURES
Pictures in Conversation With these new works I want to re-imagine, reinvent time, to see it as a physical dimension, to create an object of the...
Revolution of Everyday Life
Revolution of Everyday Life Two young women meet in an explosive and highly emotional love story where love, art and revolution ignite. In this film 9 women...
An Anatomy of Pictures
An Anatomy of Pictures What is an anatomy? And what could be an anatomy of pictures? Early images were drawn on cave walls, sculpted as statuary,...
Double Fantasy
Double Fantasy Double Fantasy, an 18 min dyptych with Jia Hongsheng, John Lennon, Jean Luc Godard, The Beatles, and the students of Tiananmen premiered at...
School Paintings
Painting I was always drawing but recently began painting again going to the students art league here in new york....
Everyday Cinema
Everyday Cinema Below is the foreward to the book and on the right select page spreads. The Extraordinary Event of Everyday Cinema: On the...
Revolution of the Present (Empires)
Revolution of the Present (Empires) Synopsis The film and online project brings together international philosophers, scientists and artists to give...
Cinema :01
Cinema Series Cinema is an ongoing limited edition dvd series where clips from films are paired as 'double features'. But in this case the films play side by...
Cinema Engine
Cinema Engine The cinema engine is a new kind of projector written in software. Here films are made from files. There is no shot reverse shot, there are...
Exploding Oedipus
Exploding Oedipus, 2000(35M, 87 min, varied festivals) SYNOPSIS The struggles of a young man struck by bohemia, in pain, curious, yearning, sexually,...
LAOWAI, Antagonisms and Allegories, Class of 2012
Here and Elsewhere, Class of 2012 Shanghai Here and Elsewhere Shanghai Theatre Academy, Class of 2012 When I was asked by the Shanghai Theatre Academy to do...
Artist Books
Artist Books The Unbounded Wor(l)d Long before the Internet, books were the miracle that carried information far and wide. Some scribbles printed...
Paradise
Paradise, 2009 HD Feature and Installation SYNOPSIS: A group of theater students get together in the park to discuss 'fiction and the real.' Soon, through a...
Love and Art
Love and Art 2006 SYNOPSIS 'Love and art'- Fictional Documentary/Biography Part diary, part documentary, part tragic tale, this film follows a couple from...
Permutations
Permutations For a year I made a small film everyday, called, Permutations. These were every day recording of life. Some stills below. Cinema is identical to...
Computations
Computations These computational films are as much works of generative sound as they are of algorithmic image. It was for me a new way to do films, to work with...
Confessions Of An Image
Confessions of an Image, 2001(Video, 47 min, SF screening, Atlantic Center for the Arts) A visual essay about the image, cinema and imaging. The 21 confessions...
InstaScapes
InstaScapes Instascapes are lightweight sculptural transparencies mimicking camera filters. they are designed to be social and playful, produced at varying...
Raindrop Ecstasy
Raindrop Ecstasy 3 Screen Installation, 8:17min On a New York City rainy night, four young people find themselves quietly in search, against the obvious, for...
Harry, Zelda and Antoinette
Harry, Zelda and Antoinette, 2005 The work consists of six parts, each composed of some twelve to twenty multi-screen films. You can see it here not composed...
The Image Itself
The Image Itself Is it possible that every image has a double? The one seen and the one unseen. In fact, is every image the image seen twice and then infinitely...
Participation Self Becoming
Participation marc lafia (read through Lygia Clarke, Claire Bishop, Relational Aesthetics, Precariousness, Hal Foster, Giorgio Agamben, and Brian...
My Double My Self
My Double My Self A man and a woman, husband and wife, their parents, and their children are closely and intimately observed as these two films unfold,...
Lola, Cape Cod
Lola, Cape Cod After having come back from Matera, Italy and working with Elsa Ellies, I asked Lola if she wanted to do a photo shot. I have taken...
Matera, Elsa
Matera I had an invitation to work with EE, a young british designer of men's clothing. She invited me to join her team in Matera, Italy, the second oldest...
Fashion
Fashion
EE London
EE London EE London In January 2014 I went to London to shoot Elsa's winter collection. We shot along the Thames in East London with 4 models....
Project Proposals
On this page are projects in different stages of collaboration and development The Infinities of the Universe Marc Lafia, Federico Ciacci, Francesco Snoriguzzi...
Books, Catalogs
Books, Catalogs The first two books here are still in process, in the days ahead I will be adding downloadable pdf's and additional books and...
Editions
Editions Though there are many films on the site, there are also a good many artworks including photographs, installations, net art pieces, works on paper,...
Sites
Though this site is mostly concerned with films and installations, these other sites include earlier works in photography, drawing, performance and the...
Films, at a glance
Revolution of Everyday Life, 2010 HD Feature Synopsis: A tale of love, lust, and radical politics in the city. Lizzy, a young woman from Eastern Europe,...
My Double, Myself
My Double, My Self 2008 (film of varied length) The film is divided into 2 parts. The first, reminisces of a man who goes in for an operations and there...