Matthew Wilson

Lives and works in Netherlands

Artist statement

In Wilson's videos, sculptures, and installations viewers meet a range of agents—mercurial materials, sites, non-humans, personae, and inter-subjective entities—that are entangled with natural processes and shape-shifting historical forces. His projects utilize research-based, site-specific, and methodologically eclectic approaches to track the inertia of Modernity through contemporary ecological crisis and into speculative futures.

Artwork

• Within the Temple Without, 2019. UHD black and white video with sound
• Factitious Earths, 2019. Infused aluminum prints of scanning electron microscope images, shown with geology experiment from which the images were generated
• A Projection of the Colonial Imaginary, 2018. Installation view
• The Age of Autonomous Exploration, 2018. near-infrared 4K/UHD video
• The Well of the Well-off Poison, 2018. Water from the well Columbus drew water from to christen the "new world," UHD infrared video of the well (downsampled to HD) on monitor, Fonteide plastic water bottles, tape
• Panspermia, 2018. Years old ambient algae colony, volcanic stone, plastic container, LED panel light, steel
• Geological Evidences, 2017. UHD near infrared video, stereo sound
• Everything will be digested, 2017. Materials collected from Schöningen archeological excavation, the open-cast coal mine within which the archeological site is located, and a neighboring exhausted and backfilled coal mine
• A cave, Archive, Arcade, 2017. UHD video and UHD UV video on MacBook Pro, middle Paleolithic flint flake, flint from Charles Darwin’s house worked into biface (handaxe), acrylic