"I have always considered myself an artist before anything else, despite most of my practice being based in photography I have never wanted to restrict myself to its medium or its principles I am an artist that uses a camera, not a photographer. All of this strengthens the dialogue between the objects and the onlooker to create a ‘conversation’. There may be a sense of nostalgia that these objects initially conjure up, but this is just the key to open the door to memories and meaning connected to the objects as well as the objects having their own signifiers. He is interested in the connections that are derived through the viewer’s relationship to the objects. Matt Noir works with devices of communication which have traversed from the once commonplace to a new iconographic status and uses these to explore themes of isolation and communication. He works with early-to-mid 20th century pieces, that have a technical function, but are also objects of beauty and elegance which can be imbued with personality and character. Matt Noir’s paintings investigate the symbolic power of the object, how they are bestowed with meaning, evoke memory and develop narrative. He also had his studio featured as part of The Friend of the Artist ‘The Studio Image Project’ which showed his creative environment. With lockdown Matt continued to exhibit his work through virtual shows and online platforms, as well as being published in the Artist Talk Magazine. In 2017 he held his first major solo exhibition at Gallery 40, Brighton. He has exhibited in England and is a regular contributor to the Brighton Artists Open Houses. Matt Noir is a Brighton based painter with a BA in Fine Art from Bath School of Art & Design. Using an array of artistic mediums ‘Rewind: Let’s Press Play Together’ explores these themes and questions. Is there still a place for outdated technologies? For playfulness and our own personal nostalgia? Can they be used for positive? Can they help us remember, play, and (re)connect? In this world where technologies meant to bring us together often make us feel more disconnected. Ironically, is our increased connectivity online disconnecting us from ourselves, one another, and the physical world around us?Ĭan playfulness and personal nostalgia help us navigate and connect in today’s super modern world? Voices shout over one another on crowded platforms. Curated presentations of ‘perfect’ lives disconnect us from one another and our lived realities. Social media offers a world of connectivity, but algorithms create disconnected echo chambers. Most of us are continuously connected to one another, the world, and online spaces, creating a global, multifaceted, multi-voiced, complex, competing, constant stream of now. Technological development has led to unprecedented levels of connectivity. What is the effect-psychologically, sociologically, politically, and ecologically- of our consumption, engagement with and discarding of technologies? What does a past recorded in outdated- even obsolete-technologies mean? Does it fragment the self- individually and collectively- from its own past, or at least representations of it? What lingers lost and forgotten in undeveloped photographs and unplayable home videos? Looking at how individuals connect with themselves, one another, and society: how we engage with our individual and collective pasts, presents and potential futures. 'Rewind: Let's Press Play Together' uses nostalgia, playfulness, and outdated technologies to explore connectivity.
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