Artists

Mark Barker

Press release

Shahin Zarinbal is delighted to present Mark Barker’s solo exhibition Whole Property, opening on 1st May as part of Berlin Gallery Weekend. 

In this new sequence of works, Barker looks at how bodily needs are controlled and delineated. Fenced enclosures, houses, and toilets recur as motifs, all implying restricted movement in some way; letting things in and keeping things out. The figure appears too, as a container for a portion of chocolate. These works refer to private situations where the body tries and fails to contain itself; where its needs become unavoidable. 

Mark Barker was born in Hertfordshire, UK in 1983 and lives and works in Berlin. He has a multifaceted approach to making, working between drawing, painting, photography, video, and sculpture. In his work different mediums coalesce, inform and agitate one another.