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Nathaniel Mellors, Estate, Matt's Gallery, London, 2022

Matt’s Gallery – Estate

Private View + PERMANENT PRESENTS Book Launch Sunday 25 September 2-5pm Estate is a new exhibition by Nathaniel Mellors bringing together w

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Lindsay Seers & Keith Sargent, Cold Light at Matt’s Gallery, London, 2022

Matt’s Gallery – Cold Light

The inaugural exhibition in Matt’s Gallery’s new Nine Elms space will be Cold Light - a new video installation and virtual reality work by L

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Ben Rivers - Slow Action (2011)

‘Slow Action […] is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film [...] 16mm works which exist somewhere between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction.

Slow Action applies the idea of island biogeography - the study of how species and eco-systems evolve differently when isolated and surrounded by unsuitable habitat - to a conception of the Earth in a few hundred years; the sea level rising to absurd heights, creating hyperbolic utopias that appear as possible future mini-societies.

Slow Action is filmed at different sites across the globe: Lanzarote - a beautiful strange island known for its beach resorts yet one of the driest places on the planet, full of dead volcanoes and strange architecture; Gunkanjima - an island off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, a deserted city built on a rock, once home to thousands of families mining its rich coal reserves; Tuvalu - one of the smallest countries in the world, with tiny strips of land barely above sea level in the middle of the Pacific; and Somerset - an as yet to be discovered island and its various clades.

This series of constructed realities explores the environments of self-contained lands and the search for information to enable the reconstruction of soon to be lost worlds.

The film’s soundtrack - narratives by writer Mark von Schlegell - detail each of the four islands’ evolutions according to their geographical, geological, climatic and botanical conditions.

Slow Action, inspired by novels such as Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, Bacon’s The New Atlantis, Herbert Read’s The Green Child and Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, embodies the spirit of exploration, experiment and active research that has come to characterise Rivers’ practice.’

 http://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/rivers/exhibition-1.php

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Exhibition Picks | 11 November 2014

Opening this week…

Jonathan Monk: I ♥ 1984 at Lisson Gallery

Marking Monk's sixth solo show at Lisson, I ♥ 1984 responds both to the autobiographical and the art historical. Pieces on show include wall-hung 'stitched-together souvenir tea towels' to mark every day of his life, Robert Smithson-inspired groupings of rocks from seven contested Middle Eastern territories and Bernd & Hilla Becher-inspired monochromatic grids of architecture (in the midst of being demolished).

14 November 2014 – 17 January 2015 Frederik de Wilde: NanoBlck-Sqr #1 at Carroll / Fletcher

Belgian artist Frederik De Wilde's work NanoBlck-Sqr #1 is made of a nano-engineered material supposedly so dark it is 'blacker than black', to the point of absorbing 'practically all visible light'. 

14 November – 20 December 2014 Shurooq Amin: We'll Build This City on Art & Love at Ayyam Gallery

Syrian-Kuwait artist Shurooq Amin uses materials as diverse as wood, reclaimed photographs, and Braille to reflect both the political and intimate spheres of the Arab world.

13 November – 10 January 2015 Tales From an Imagined City at Delfina Foundation

A collection of films from the Videobrasil Festival, featuring works by Hou Chien Cheng, Roy Dib, Jurandir Müller and Kiko Goifman, Virgínia de Medeiros and Luiz Roque, exploring how urban environments might affect our perception of our selves.

12 November – 19 December 2014 Revolver II: Part Three at Matt's Gallery

The final group exhibition of a three-part series at Matt's Gallery investigating the manifestation of knowledge. Featuring artists Patrick Goddard, Jaki Irvine and Lucia Noguiera.

19 November – 14 December 2014

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First exposure to this was meeting Benedict Drew.

Seems like an interesting gallery to keep an eye on.

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Benedict Drew: Heads May Roll

Young British artist Benedict Drew’s installation is a total headfuck of flickering screens, pulsating lights and ear-splitting sounds. The first room is brutally...

Apt description of Drew's newest installation. Do you agree? 

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Benedict Drew, Heads May Roll at Matt's Gallery

Taken on a recent study visit to London. Definitely one of the high points.