Rene Matić
Rene Matić (b. 1997, Peterborough, UK) lives and works in London, UK. In Fall 2023, Matić had their first US solo exhibition at Chapter NY. They have also had solo and two-person exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Arcadia Missa, London; Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol; Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna; South London Gallery, London; Studio Voltaire, London; Quench Gallery, Margate; VITRINE Gallery, London; among others. Their work was included in the Coventry Biennial 2023, Coventry and Warwickshire; and other group exhibitions at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York; Studio/chapple, London; The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery, Rossendale; Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry; High Art Arles, Arles; Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK; bold Tendencies, London; Kunsthall Stavanger; Schlossmuseum, Linz; and Saatchi Gallery, London; among others. Their work is in the permanent collections of Tate, London; Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris; The Hepworth Wakerfield, Wakerfield; UK Government Art Collection, London; Arts Council Collection, London; Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol; University Arts London Collection, London; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; South London Gallery, London.
Across photography, film, and sculpture, Matić tenderly document the lives that populate their community and the persistence of perpetual love in unrequited places. Their work converges in a meeting place they describe as “rude(ness)” - an evidencing and honoring of the in-between.
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Rene Matić
Wai Kin, Turner Prize Opening, Liverpool, 2022
Inkjet print
27 1/2 x 18 5/8 in (70 x 47.3 cm)
28 1/2 x 19 1/4 in (72.3 x 48.9 cm) (framed) Edition of 5 plus 2 AP (#3/5)
Rene Matić
The Delaine Bus, Peterborough, 2022
Inkjet print
27 1/2 x 18 1/2 in (70 x 46.9 cm)
28 1/2 x 19 1/8 in (72.3 x 48.5 cm) (framed)
Edition of 5 plus 2 AP (#3/5)
Rene Matić
Nadine and Maggie on Halloween, London, 2022
Inkjet print
27 1/2 x 18 5/8 in (70 x 47.3 cm)
28 1/2 x 19 1/4 in (72.3 x 48.9 cm) (framed) Edition of 5 plus 2 AP (#3/5)
Matić draws inspiration from dance and music movements to delve into the complex relationship between West Indian and white working-class culture in Britain, while privileging intimacies, partnerships and pleasure as modes of survival.
Willa Nasatir
Willa Nasatir (b. 1990, Los Angeles, CA) lives and works in New York, NY. She received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2012. She has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Sea View, Los Angeles; François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; Gaylord Apartments, Los Angeles; Chapter NY, New York; and the White Room at White Columns, New York. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Oriole, Hamburg; Parker Gallery, Los Angeles; the New Museum, New York; Hester, New York; David Zwirner, New York; Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles; Company Gallery, New York; and Drei, Cologne, among others. Her work is in the permanent collections of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Informed by her background in photography, Nasatir creates paintings that intentionally evoke the translucency and flatness of photographic images. She transforms everyday objects to the point of the surreal, collecting and accumulating her subjects before distorting and abstracting their forms through various processes.
Her work dislodges bodies and objects from ingrained associations and preexisting meaning, allowing them to merge into hybrid forms with porous edges.