IS IT LIGHT WHERE YOU ARE
HUGH MATTHEWS
23 Nov to 15 Dec 2018
Is it light where you are is a series of prints, video projections, hanging tiles and musical compositions by Melbourne artist Hugh Matthews. The work explores the innate sense of place & isolation, as applied to the new & emerging digital landscapes we inhabit. Each work utilises techniques of digital distortion and process.
In the digital night we are
sedentary explorers,
endlessly informed yet
bereft of new places and
forms to fully discover. This
is enlightenment lite, we live
as one emulation signalling
to another, trading our
stilted, coded coherence.
We are controllers, the
isolated secondaries of an
Android occasion. The
device is divisive, and we
have surrendered to it. A
screen may project light, but
only skin can absorb it. Our
human gift is that we are
tangible beings, we cannot
be reduced to a binary
state.
Preserve the sense of our
physical forms existing in
space, and tell me once so
Iʼll know forever..
Is it light where you are?
In the digital night we are
sedentary explorers,
endlessly informed yet
bereft of new places and
forms to fully discover. This
is enlightenment lite, we live
as one emulation signalling
to another, trading our
stilted, coded coherence.
We are controllers, the
isolated secondaries of an
Android occasion. The
device is divisive, and we
have surrendered to it. A
screen may project light, but
only skin can absorb it. Our
human gift is that we are
tangible beings, we cannot
be reduced to a binary
state.
Preserve the sense of our
physical forms existing in
space, and tell me once so
Iʼll know forever..
Is it light where you are?