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Pepe Mar�s technique is complex, bizarre, and vicious, infusing his works with color, glamour, and fashion. His collage monsters are like mannequins�slowly �painted,� coiffed, dressed, undressed, beautified, colorized, and �monstrosized�. He incorporates the detritus of everyday consumer life into his work.
The second force of silence, submission, and masquerading is evidenced in all the monsters� faces, depicting a sensibility of death. Those quiet, introspective eyes are a part of faces that are otherwise about to explode or swallow us for lunch with their sharp teeth, open mouths, and arms in corrupted and vicious movements toward the spectator.


These haunting faces speak silent volumes of the dynamic of chosen and/or inflicted silence on entire populations, which like these sculptures, eventually explode into a loud Gemeinschaft, where the common relationship between people whether of feelings, kinship, or membership becomes spoken, debated, and demanded. In the same way, Mar�s monsters speak, debate, and demand our attention. They seem painfully aware that silence shall equal death for them, and therefore constantly remain in flux of form, size, color, and motion.


Mar�s work points to a profound artifice. The drama is present throughout the work. By delighting and frightening at the same time, the works cut away at basic modes of thinking about beauty and monstrosity.