Helen Marten

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibitions “Almost the exact shape of Florida”, initiated by the Kunsthalle Zürich, together with “Plank Salad” at the Chisenhale Gallery in London and “No borders in a wok that can't be crossed” at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. British artist Helen Marten pokes humorously at questions of ownership and dishonesty in materials, the relationship of object to artifact, and package to product. Interested in the grammatical approximations made in workmanship, Marten's oeuvre weaves constant conversations between counterfeit and camouflage. Image is continually tripped up by language, by a deliberateness of error that postures with all the concrete certainty of cultural recognizability. The book includes numerous installation and texts by Ed Atkins, Michael Archer, Kit Grover, Flint Jamison, and Richard Wentworth.