Mark Leckey

Born 1964 in Birkenhead (England), he lives and works in London.
 

Mark Leckey is an iconoclastic artist and member of Donateller and Jack too Jack music groups. The founding principles of his work are based on the postulates that art does not necessarily emanate from reality and that the material it uses must be second hand – taken, say, from films, magazines or newspapers. Often seen as a kind of dandy or flaneur, his film Fiorucci Made me Hardcore (1999), a short and precise montage of films found in the BBC archives, which condenses the recent history of club and dance culture and of gangs in England, immediately elevated Leckey to cult status. Art, the underground scene, popular rituals, and the supernatural are at the heart of his work, which proceeds by association, quotation, collage and montage.

The installation The Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous, presented at Espace Croix-Baragnon, comprises a poster, a dummy and a video which explore the contemporary resonance of the ghost figure, with a 1970s horror film as its starting point.