The Samstag Alumni

The 2000 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships

John Harris | Károly Keserü | Marco Masci | David Ralph | Elvis Richardson | Sally-Ann Rowland | Troy Ruffels | Paula Wong

The artistic concerns of Marco Masci are intricately enmeshed in the twin issues of representation and identity, towards both of which he has adopted a trans-institutional approach. With a background in photography and an eye to new representational technologies, this artist has enlisted "light, image and sculptural form"* to express the conflicting nature of belonging to, and yet being absent from, a socio-culturally prescribed ethnicity and gender.

Masci's interest in new formulations of materials and media is synonymous with his interests in the new orders of identity, and the conceptual wit that alternates between both foci can be seen to great effect. The 'positive' or central aspect of these images is illuminated and yet arbitrary, and it is only by looking to the edges of these vaguely island-like shapes that they are revealed as contexts of desire.

James Moss
from his Samstag catalogue essay;
The World is not Enough

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Re: family, porn and travel as metaphor 1999
plexiglass, nova-jet prints and fluoro light
100 x 100 x 15 cm
© the artist

The space between Randy and Jackson
(Skinflicks, p55, March 1996) 1998
duratrans, plexiglass and fluoro lights
80 x 110 cm
© the artist