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“Personal Photographs, September 2009” at Team Gallery

May 29th, 2019

Eva and Franco Mattes, Personal Photographs

Eva and Franco Mattes, Personal Photographs

Eva and Franco Mattes, Personal Photographs

Eva and Franco Mattes, Personal Photographs

Eva and Franco Mattes, Personal Photographs

Eva and Franco Mattes, Personal Photographs

“Data Doubles” is our ongoing solo exhibition Team Gallery, Los Angeles.

“Personal Photographs, September 2009” (2019) is a network of cable trays around and throughout the exhibition site.

The cable trays represent an infrastructure disposed toward invisibility, made conspicuously present within the domestic site of the bungalow. In navigating real space and contending with pre-existing structures, they mirror the assimilation of the internet’s operations into everyday life.

All the photos we shot in September 2009 – 142 files – are in constant circulation within the cables. Images without viewers, yet always there. Like most images nowadays.

 

 

 

 

“Data Doubles” at Team Gallery, Los Angeles

May 8th, 2019

Eva and Franco Mattes, Personal Photographs

Super excited to open our first solo show in Los Angeles at Team Gallery on Sunday May 12!!!

There are three works in the show: one tiny sculpture, one projected video and one site-specific installation, each of which center around the creation and transmission of images, and the increasing interconnectedness of those two processes.

 

 

 

 

Ceiling Cat watching you at SFMOMA

April 5th, 2019

Eva and Franco Mattes, Ceiling Cat

Photos of the exhibition “Snap + Share: Transmitting Photographs from Mail Art to Social Networks“, that just opened at SFMOMA. Guess what we’re showing?

 

 

 

 

New lolcat sculpture

December 3rd, 2018

Eva and Franco Mattes, What Has Been Seen

Made a new lolcat sculpture inspired by the “What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen” meme. “What Has Been Seen” is a black taxidermy cat, sitting on a microwave containing an erased hard drive (’cause it’s been microwaved).

 

 

 

 

No Fun on a bed at The Current

November 14th, 2018

Eva and Franco Mattes, No Fun

No Fun, installed on a bed at The Current Museum, New York…

 

 

 

 

Hiring a studio manager

November 12th, 2018

We’re hiring a studio manager, one day a week to start, $400 a month, must be based in NYC, be super organized (Mr Wolf kinda style) and have previous experience. We’d meet a few times and then most of the work will be done remotely. You’ll help organizing exhibitions, shipments, writing, archives, applications and deadlines, deadlines and more deadlines… pls drop us a short email by December, about yourself, what you’re good at, your future plans etc. Thanks!

 

 

 

 

Indeed, when we visit an exhibition of

October 21st, 2018

Boris Groys, “Curating in the Post-Internet Age”

 

 

 

 

3D install shots for the MCA catalogue

October 10th, 2018

Eva and Franco Mattes, BEFNOED

Eva and Franco Mattes, My Generation

Eva and Franco Mattes, Catt

Renderings of the works we’re showing at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, for the show “I Was Raised on the Internet”, curated by Omar Kholeif. They were made for the catalogue, they’re a brilliant mix of actual installation shots – done in the museum – and 3D renderings, and it’s rather hard to tell what’s what (which is the point of course nowadays).

 

 

 

 

BEFNOED in Seoul

September 15th, 2018

Eva and Franco Mattes, BEFNOED

Visitors lying under our BEFNOED “TV tent” in the Seoul Mediacity Biennale, now on view at the Seoul Museum of Art.

 

 

 

 

My Generation Virtual Insanity

August 10th, 2018

Eva and Franco Mattes, My Generation

Shot of My Generation currently installed at Kunsthalle Mainz, for the show Virtual Insanity, inspired by Jamiroquai’s song (shutout if it starts playing in your head!). The line up is amazing: Antoine Catala, Cao Fei, Jon Rafman, Jordan Wolfson, Harun Farocki, Eva & Franco Mattes, Refrakt & Nicole Ruggiero & Molly Soda, Renaud Jerez, Igor Simić, Tabita Rezaire. Infos here.

“And now that things are changing for the worse see, it‘s a crazy world were living in And I just can‘t see that half of us immersed in sin Is all we have to give these Futures made of virtual insanity now Always seem to, be governed by this love we have For useless, twisting, our new technology Oh, now there is no sound, for we all live underground”

Thanks Stefanie Böttcher and Lina Krämer for the great job!