ARTIST PROFILE
- Slovakia (b. 1979 in Levice)
- Currently in Jílové u Prahy, Czech Republic.
- Martin Papcun explores private relationships with public spaces and the spaces we inhabit, in works both monumental and miniature. His work is focused on relationships, definitions of private and public space, and the gaps between them.
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W45th, Cleveland/ USA | 2008
W45th In Papcun first US site-specific installation, Papcún had gained permission to deconstruct an actual abandoned home in Cleveland’s west side. A home without occupants is oxymoronic; a building requires use as shelter, hearth and heart to merit the name. Papcún, in removing walls and revealing the building’s interior, in reprogramming the lights to echo standard use, conveyed real-time personal loss and life-size economic tragedy. By day, the dingy interior paint, the remaining, broken decorative elements, the bathroom fixtures were revealed; at night, the lights—bare and ghastly—switched on and off as if the ghosts inside were moving from room to room, carrying out a mundane life in a neighborhood on the edge. Fritzie Brown / executive director CEC Artslink NYC