Rene Matic
We meet leading artist RENE MATI\u0106 to discuss current solo exhibition \u2018A Girl For The Living Room\u2019 at Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol. This episode includes a special moment with living legend, and focus of Rene\u2019s new show, TRAVIS ALABANZA. We also explore earlier works exhibited at South London Gallery and their solo show at Quench Gallery, Margate. Plus we discuss a series of fifteen photographs that the Tate museum have acquired for their permanent collection - currently on display at Tate Britain's rehang of Modern and Contemporary British Art.
Rene Mati\u0107 (b. 1997, Peterborough, UK) is a London-based artist and writer whose practice spans across photography, film, and sculpture, converging in a meeting place they describe as "rude(ness)" - an evidencing and honouring of the in-between. Mati\u0107 draws inspiration from dance and music movements such as Northern soul, Ska, and 2-Tone as a tool to delve into the complex relationship between West Indian and white working-class culture in Britain, whilst privileging queer/ing intimacies, partnerships and pleasure as modes of survival.
In 2022 Martin Parr Foundation commissioned photographic artist Rene Mati\u0107 to develop a new body of work in Bristol. Rene has created an intimate portrait of their friend Travis Alabanza, a Bristol born and based writer, performer and theatre maker. This new work comprises a mix of portraits alongside diaristic still lifes that document Rene and Travis\u2019s developing relationship as it became \u201clit by a table lamp instead of a disco ball.\u201d
\u2018We were excited to discover Rene\u2019s work and started to think about the idea of Rene shooting a project in Bristol and what this might look like. In 2022 we gave them a carte blanche to pursue any subject of their choice for this commission, so long as there was a Bristol connection. In \u2018a girl for the living room\u2019 Rene has found a way of capturing and expressing their relationship with Travis Alabanza, a Bristol-born and based artist and performer.\u2019 \u2013 Martin Parr
Follow @Rene.Matic on Instagram and their gallery @ArcadiaMissa, 35 Duke Street, London: https://arcadiamissa.com/rene-matic/
A GIRL FOR THE LIVING ROOM BY RENE MATI\u0106 runs until 17th September 2023 in Bristol.
Visit: @MartinParrFdn and https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/exhibitions/a-girl-for-the-living-room/
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