Contours2019

The planet is a constructed environment: A space that has been defined for, created by, and scaled to the image of the human species. Contours points out this human exceptionalism and meditates on what it would mean to shift this gaze upon the world. Through both installed projected video and printed imagery, Contours conducts a visual cacophony of de-familiarization, abstraction, and legible illegibility of image and language. In an effort to craft a vision of a more inclusive future both ecologically and socially, the images in Contours suggest a world that privileges not only the human but the other-than-human as well.

Additional images available upon request.

Excerpts from Contours
Projected 4k Video (Color, Sound)
Dimensions Variable
12 min 3 sec, 2019

Written, directed, and produced by Mark Dorf
Music in collaboration with Cory Zimmerman
Voice Over #1 spoken by Wyne Veen
Voice Over #2 spoken by Mark Dorf

Selected Exhibitions / Screenings
2024 Below Grand, New York, NY
2023 Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 GetxoPhoto Festival, Getxo, ES
2021 VDrome.org
2020 Houston Center For Photography, Houston, TX
2020 Somerset House, London, UK (Canceled due to Covid-19)

Selected Publications
2023 Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Taiwan
2022 IMA Magazine - Issue No. 37
2021 Getxo Photo Festival Catalog
2020 Foam Magazine
2020 Keeper of the Hearth
2020 Fusebox Festival Catalog

MARK
DORF

Excerpts from Contours

Installation View

Referent, Double Paneled Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 40″ x 60″, 2019

Scaled to Gesture, Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 20″ x 25″

Reflexive, Two Panels, Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 25″ x 20″, 2019

Projection, Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 32″ x 40″, 2019

Spectrum, Eight Panels, Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 20″ x 16″, 2019

Spectrum (Detail)

View II, Double Paneled Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 40″ x 32″, 2020

Lenny, Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 40″ x 32″, 2020

Projection featured on the cover of Foam Magazine Issue No. 56

MARK DORF

MARK
DORF