MARC KISKA

Marc Kiska

Deprogramming a machine

Photography on copy paper, chipboard, varnished, with suspension. 90*140cm. The multidisciplinary artist Marc Kiska (35) has in recent years gained widespread attention in international cultural press for his art photography. In 2014, he published the book “Outlandish / ROOM /”, a selection of photos from the last 10 years of his work. The main subject of Kiska’s art is particularly related to the process of identity development in young men. His focus is on the transition between puberty’s playfulness, innocence, spontaneous creativity, process of liberation and adulthood’s spirit of obedience and heteronormativity. In 2017 he debuted as a novelist. “Les Vestiges d’Alice” (“The Remains of Alice”) was published by the French editor TABOU. The book won the jury’s special nomination in the French-speaking country’s competition of the Queer novel of the Year. The latest development in Kiska’s oeuvre is sculpture. A topic that recurs in all his work is a call to preserve what Kiska sees as a unique and life-giving source of creativity and source of meaning in the teenager spirit; an intrinsic and organic drive that the social contract demands that we sacrifice in order to adapt and succeed in adult life, with its responsibilities. www.marckiska.com, Instagram : marckiska, Facebook : Marc Kiska