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Sunday Salon 32 | Matthew Tyson
Saturation Point, London | November, 2024
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Matthew Tyson, artist....
My most recent work has been made in a number of places and responds to various experiences. The works in this show were made in France, where I live, and in London. Other works have been made in India, Japan, Italy, etc. They all represent an amalgam of sensations from many different places.
I was artist in residence for six weeks in Bangalore, India, last February, and was in Japan before that, where I had two exhibitions. I travel around a lot for work. Planes, trains, cars, walking, etc. This movement has been a continual element in my life. Always a passage from one place to the next. Life is that way, and this itinerant experience should be embraced.
Travelling is important. The wealth of information. How does one replicate various sensations, sounds, tastes, sights, smells, into a plastic entity that processes these many elements into a representation of what one sees and senses, while allowing the viewer to participate in their own way in these creations?
My works are created from a very personal position, but like children, they go out into the world and take on their own lives and relationships with others. They are only fragile representations of oneself.
Basil Bunting once said: "what an unreliable friend memory is". However, we must trust our recall of situations as our own versions of reality; others will take them and make of them what they will. However unreliable,they are true representations of what has been.
Many of these works are often not what they seem, and they change with time, due to the light or even the material. Is it wood? or stone? or metal? what are we looking at? The light that changes continually meets surfaces that may or may not be what they seem.
There is always discussion to be had, and one should take each thing as it is and travel with it into one's own areas of memory and sensibility. These offerings are simply meant to be aids to our journey. Maybe indicators along the way. Suggestions for our memory, of something we might have experienced in a previous passage of time, and of all the elements which went into forming that experience.
