Mimicking particulate forms of 21st century communication – words, images and phrases shoot at you from every surface and ricochet in a context free ether. The provenance of this data is unclear and unverifiable; much of it is manipulated or even stolen as is true of many things on the internet and other social communication networks today.
World Showcase Adventure is intended to be a collection and space which is able to endure incomprehension whilst confronting reality – an archive that cannot function, yet still offers something through the implication of the viewer within the space.
Matt Brown is an early career visual artist currently living and working in Perth. His practice involves research into analog formats of archive – intending to challenge normalised processes of the visually informative. Today, due to a democratization of data and knowledge, historically appropriate methods of archiving and presenting information have become somewhat strange and absurd. Brown’s practice involves a process of applying these analog and absurd methods to subjects that cause them to be broken down and become poetic rather than informative and authoritative.
Brown graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Curtin University in 2017. He was the winner of the City of South Perth Emerging Artist Award in 2017 and has previously exhibited at Smart Casual (WA) and has an upcoming solo show at FELTspace (SA). He is currently an Artist in Residence at Fremantle Arts Centre.