Mark Stockton: 100 People is a group of 100 photo-referent, hand-drawn portraits made with graphite on paper and intended to be received as a single work in form and experience. Each subject connects via eye contact to the viewer, addressing the objectifying nature of portraiture head-on. Portraits have a complex history—they have the potential to venerate, emotionally connect, to resonate into a lived experience—they are also tools of commodification, objectification, and colonialization.
For this publication, the portraits have been scaled down from life-size drawings to more intimate, hand-held depictions. The work order was rearranged weekly during the exhibition, creating new groupings and fluid relationships. This untraditional publication—in card form—is designed to reinforce the non-hierarchical structure of the project, inviting viewers to re-order and reflect.
Typeset in ABC Gravity Variable by Dinamo.
- Designer
- Elaine Lopez
- Artist
- Mark Stockton
- Photographer
- Jaime Alvarez
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