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Without looking at the online guide to the art, we thought this was Willem Boshoff's work! I said I wanted to find a rock somewhere and create a similar piece for my garden. Paul was horrified that I'd consider plagiarising someone's work!
From www.matchivers.com "The flat plane can be seen as a signifier of modern human consciousness - and particularly of contemporary digitality - in the sense that the human being is the only animal that imposes linear form on the material reality of the world. Increasingly we are surrounded by mediated objects and environments that are a direct result of the virtual processes that have been used to create them Eroded into its distinctive form by the action of millions of years of sun, wind and rain on the high veldt of South Africa, the found dolomitic boulder that this work is made from bears the exquisite traces of its formation. Continuing this process of erosion, the minimal act of carving two perfectly flat intersecting planes by hand into the stone results in a paradoxical object, part raw geology, part human intervention The two planes are covered in a constellation of concavities that are an expansion of marks made with a hammer and punch during an attempt to articulate a grid of points with eyes closed, that act as a memory of the analogue process with which the work has been made and at the same time allude to the stipple and cuppule marks that are a feature of early human rock engraving Made on residency in the UNESCO designated Cradle of Humankind from the material that gives this culturally momentous landscape it’s unique form, Changing My Mind explores the idea that consciousness is situated simultaneously in the brain, the body, and out into the world through physical engagement with the stuff of reality, as a reciprocal process."
Exhibition Review - Mat Chivers:'Harmonic Distortion', PM/AM, London till 16th April 2017.
“Art's new technology is a broken technology."- Drenched Co.
From Svetlana Boym's Off-Modern Manifesto.
Comment: "Mat Chivers' encounters with machines surprises us. He is an accomplished conductor of his own fallibility. Engaging with information is an interminable process and translation is an impossibility. But Mat is persistent and his margin of error is his margin of freedom to create surprising art, to allow us an inroad into information, a way to digest it, inhabit it and make meaning from it. But these 'models' of 'clouds' are more - they are receptacles of dreams and longings and mysteries, ruins of some alternative history out of a universe of alternative outcomes, engaging with history in a way to place it in a new motion, open to the present. Fabulous. I liked the Shibari inspired performance most." - Raj
See www.pmam.org/exhibitions/mat-chivers-harmonic-distortion/
See also www.soaked.space/2017/04/exhibition-review-mat-chivershar...
See also www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/04/exhibition-review-mat-chiv...
Caption: Image above: Installation view Mat Chivers© PM/AM, London 2017.
Credits: Image courtesy of the artist and PM/AM, London. Photography: David Brook
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