Mark Jenkins @ Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Title: Untitled #1 (The Fisherman)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Artist: Mark Jenkins
Address: Downtown Boston
Year: 2024

Photo Credits: Mark Jenkins

“Come see Untitled #1 (The Fisherman) in its new home at the corner of Chauncy and Summer Streets! One of five sculptures by Mark Jenkins in Downtown Boston, we are delighted for the final of 16 artworks in WINTERACTIVE to be installed.
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A series of characters scattered in the alleys and corners of the Downtown Boston district engage in playful activities. One swings through the air, between two buildings; another sits on top of a balcony fishing for some love. Cast at human scale and in ordinary clothes, these disarmingly realistic trompe-l’oeil sculptures have passersby doing double-takes to make sure they aren’t real people in alarming positions. Through the strong reactions they provoke, Jenkins’ installations invite us to reflect on our norms for acceptable behavior in public space and on the blurring boundaries between what is fake and what is real.
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Mark Jenkins is a street artist who takes over public space with hyperrealistic sculptures of people in surprising locations. The cityscape provides a theatre for these figures, which the artist develops in a site-specific process. Placed in unusual positions, they interact with the built environment in astonishing and sometimes absurd ways.
This artwork was originally created for the public art trail PASSAGES INSOLITES, produced by EXMURO arts publics and presented by the City of Québec.”
Mark Jenkins

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