Taking Positions

The title ‘Taking Positions’ refers to the constrained readings attached to specific poses, taken from classical-fascist figurative sculptures by Arno Breker. Marsh worked with dancers to remodel these poses, filming them in their original context, the studio used by Breker in Berlin during the Second World War. In a more provocative sense the title of the exhibition suggests the viewer also takes a ‘position’ to these figures. There is an important question here about how contemporary art deals responsibly with historic forms, figures, and architectures that memorialise repressive regimes.