Matt Taber “The World Is Yours If You Are Real”

The Chimney

poster for Matt Taber “The World Is Yours If You Are Real”

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The Chimney presents an exhibition by American artist Matt Taber. “The world is yours if you are real” is the fifth part of the exhibition series “My Name is Everybody” which explores modes of desire within a computational landscape.

Inside The Chimney, a monumental cloud stands on a tower. The cloud, a nebulous phenomenon stands to resist the physical world and has been turned into a free-floating sign, an architecture that repeats and changes throughout time. Taber explores the mythology of the cloud and its dynamic symbolism - from the cosmological sublime to the computational cloud. The cloud stands as a system, a space that is appropriated or misappropriated with difference and repetition. A stairway allows viewers to ascend into the cloud. Two paintings of similar clouds are visible.

Depicting a future utopia in the American West, Taber describes intrapersonal desires and the landscapes that produce them. On view at the Chimney is the third trailer from “My Name is Everybody”. Caught in the computational cloud, characters roam through the pastiche American West attempting to rediscover their bodies by enacting ritualistic processes of labor. The facticity of the video resembles that of the gallery space. Is there a separation between the characters in the movie and the audience? Viewers seem trapped in that same fictional landscape and become the witness of their own datafication.

Like an eternally repeating feedback loop, our consumptive desires transform landscapes and our constructed environments feed and command our desires. Taber’s exhibition encourages viewers to see how today’s technology is presented with divine qualities and how, by creating a de-centralized sense of selfhood, computational outgrowth has limited our relationship to the physical world.

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Schedule

from November 02, 2018 to December 16, 2018

Artist(s)

Matt Taber

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