Mark Robbins

White Hot (Strong & Silent)

2010

Silent & Strong focuses on the relationship between commercial and mainstream political representations and the actualities of daily life. In a new large-scale mural created for this exhibition, Playbook, he places contemporary Colgate football players within the iconographic space of classical Roman friezes and exuberant renaissance depictions of the body in ritual activity and battle. In Households, a series of collages that bring together photographs of individuals and couples of different ages and lifestyles and their spaces, he examines the relationship between domestic décor and and body culture. Orders, a theatrical installation created for the Quito Biennial, reflects aspects of indigenous culture within the art and architecture of the colonial period. Stunning portraits of Rwandan architecture students in their spare domestic spaces make up the piece called Student Teacher.