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Born 1968 in Volkel, The Netherlands.
Lives and works in Arnhem, The Netherlands, and Ronse, Belgium.
In 1986, at the age of eighteen, Mark Manders embarked on his ongoing project Self-portrait as a Building. All his work since then has contributed to this 'self-portrait', which is neither a likeness of the biological Mark Manders, nor of any actual person, and which seldom assumes any architectural attributes. Manders describes the project as 'a place where my thoughts are frozen together.' |
"My works are always objects or rooms that seem just to have been left behind, and most of the time the works are a precise gathering or construction of human thinking acts... You could see my work, this self-portrait as a building, as an enormous three-dimensional photograph of a mind. Not my mind though. It's a place where my thoughts are frozen together. Although it has taken me more than twenty years to make this work, all fragments are frozen in the same now. I want to create one tense arrested super-moment which I and other persons can walk through." |
