Marc Bijl (1970, NL) is a highly versatile artist who switches as effortlessly between political activity and street culture as he does between the media of image, text and music.
Crises of any nature can, in their essence, be seen through both dystopian as well as utopian predictions of the future. In his works, Bijl often refers to (musical) periods at large, wherein he then highlights the doom and gloom of the particular. In his new work, he hints at the crises of the 1980s and the, arguably analogous to the present, uncertain outlook on what the future may bring.
In his new series of works, the viewer is exposed to a glitch in time. In these slightly mysterious works the old and new come together in a smooth industrial and digital finish. Bijl’s retro-futurism explores the tension between past and future, and between the alienating and empowering effects of technology.