Pigment, Extraction, and the Weight of Material
Pigment Extraction and the Weight of Material examines how color begins in soil, bark, seed, and mineral. Reflecting on extraction, labor, and trade, Marcia Kure considers pigment as network, not merely surface, where each mark carries the weight of geology, history, and power. Drawing emerges as inscription shaped by material origin and circulation.
Thinking about Under Skin, 2019
Under Skin unfolded across the checkered floor of the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, where the grid became both stage and system, a field of lines mapping order, strategy, and control. Bull-shaped figures referencing Bamana boli objects gathered as a coalition within this architectural diagram, invoking biopower, collective force, and the slippage between agency and orchestration. Extending into scarred paper bodies and archival collages, the installation examined how power inscribes itself onto skin, space, and social form.