Exhibition
NATURAL SIMULATIONS - Solo Exhibition by Matt Gee
30 Mar 2015 – 21 Apr 2015
Event times
Monday : Closed Tuesday 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Wednesday 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Thursday 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Friday 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 Sunday : Closed
Address
- 649-651 Commercial Road
- Limehouse
- London
- E14 7LW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Limehouse
Solo Exhibition of New Work by Matt Gee.
Opening : Monday 30th March 6-9PM
Exhibition : 31st March - 21st Apri
About
Husk Gallery is pleased to present new works by Matt Gee.
NATURAL SIMULATIONS consists of works in mixed media that are driven by a concern for materiality. Gee’s works are subtle explorations that raise questions of authenticity, purity and wonder in relation to humanity’s negative impact on the environment.
Gee’s display methods echo the languages of the retail industry and cabinets of curiosity, carefully employed to merge connotations of desire and a fascination in discovery.
Shelves of: Faux Specimens Genuinely Archived is an exposed cabinet of curiosity that houses a sprawling series of objects consisting of artificial objects posing as natural forms and artificial forms posing as natural processes that conform to synthetic objects. A painterly slice masquerades as a slice of crystal Agate appearing to conform by embracing perfectly within a roll of duck tape. Gee comments, “Crystals are a reoccurring motif that grow in random organic arrangements but have been cultivated to grow inside orchestrated forms or in sharp geometric compositions. Crystals have organic qualities but unlike microbes, which appear synthetic under the microscope, they are not living organisms, as they possess no DNA, sitting in-between the natural and synthetic.”
In this new body of work, Gee has considered geopolitical case studies such as the ‘Playstation War’ and the ‘Tantalum crisis' (2000). Tantalum is a mineral ore used in the production of electronic gadgets and mined in the Republic of Congo. The price of Tantalum recently surged in price tenfold overnight as a result of demand for the new Playstation 2. This led to vicious attacks on mines for the ‘black gold’ and subsequently militia led sacrifices of forests and animals at natural parks.
As such, Gee’s work exposes a dichotomy between the way we value the natural world as a precious commodity yet exploit its riches for materialistic gain.
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Press Contact:
Alastair Gordon, alastair@huskgallery.com
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