born Hasselt, lives and works in Antwerp + Berlin
Master in Biological Sciences
Master in Art & Research
Member artists' associations: NICC Antwerpen + Kunstverein moving poets Berlin
Mark Swysen is intrigued by human behavior. He analyses social issues from biological and psychological perspectives.
Averse to one-dimensional thought patterns, Mark presents new underlying causes and possibilities for interpretation.
On an art philosophical level, he embraces Arthur Danto's credo that art is an "embodied meaning", presented in the form of an "awake dream".
Certainly the latter is a crucial ingredient: it adds the indefinable but essential sauce of poetry, mysticism, fantasy, humour, and unpredictability.
The artist snatches everyday objects out of their regular use and reassembles them in a completely new context.
Any material, object, technology or phenomenon can emerge as an instrument in his visual language.
Because of their subcutaneous influence on the human brain, light, sound, movement, sometimes smell are among his favourite mediums.