cut in Cannes

In UK artist Mathew Hale’s works, book pages, text fragments, graphic structures and figures in ink, as well as photographic moments of reality, are combined into new visual structures, according to the collage principle. Found and invented things are combined and confront each other as different layers of reality, directly entering into a narrative structure. These new combinations inevitably challenge the beholder to read the recoded visual elements in their (new) context. Through the combination of new content in the picture, creating a narrative by way of collage, Hale questions both their historical construction as well as current ways of functioning.