Alex Markwith
Alex Markwith is a visual artist whose work merges abstract, mixed media painting and digital techniques to explore themes of mortality, power and transformation. Currently based in Helsinki, Markwith is from the USA and lived in New York for ten years. His work has been in over 60 exhibitions worldwide including solo shows in New York, Paris and Helsinki and is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
LIBERTY LAMENTING THE WORLD
This collaborative sculpture reimagines the character M from Rocket Rascals as a faceless, decayed soldier burdened with the weight of the world within its chest. Crowned with fractured spikes that echo the Statue of Liberty, the figure embodiesboth the longing for home and the erosion of ideals once tied to freedom and democracy. Chains reference bondage and forgotten promises of liberation, while the missing torch and weary posture suggest defeat and abandonment. Simultaneously fragile and resilient, the work questions where notions of home, belonging, and human responsibility toward Earth can be found in a fractured, post- apocalyptic present.
