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Half Cat spotted in Milan


Eva & Franco Mattes, Half Cat

Half Cat currently installed at Zero Gallery, in Milan, for the group show “Pandemic”…

 

 

 

 

“The Bots (Turkish market)” now streaming on KW


Eva & Franco Mattes, The Bots

New episode of The Bots now streaming on KW: E4: The Bots (Turkish Market), featuring Irina Cocimarov.

 

 

 

 

Nostalgia May 3, 2001, a collab with David Horvitz


Eva & Franco Mattes, Nostalgia

One of the new works in “Human-in-the-Loop”, our ongoing solo show at Kunstverein Wiesbaden is a “portrait” of artist friend David Horvitz, here’re some photos and info.

 

 

 

 

Exhibition catalogue out now!


Eva & Franco Mattes, Dear Imaginary Audience

“Dear Imaginary Audience,” exhibition catalogue with texts by Cory Arcangel, Clément Chéroux, Jodi Dean, Doris Gassert, Fabio Paris, Katrina Sluis, Nadine Wietlisbach, edited by Doris Gassert and Mona Schubert, designed by Studio Achermann, Zürich, available at Spector Books and Amazon.

 

 

 

 

Say hi to Half Cat!


Eva & Franco Mattes, Half Cat

Half Cat is a new sculpture based on a LOLcat meme, currently installed at Fotomuseum Winterthur for our show “Dear Imaginary Audience,”.

 

 

 

 

Photos of “Hannah Uncut” at Fotomuseum Winterthur


Eva & Franco Mattes, Hannah Uncut

Photos of Hannah Uncut currently installed at Fotomuseum Winterthur, for our show “Dear Imaginary Audience,”. A thick layer of memory foam covers the floor, keeping a temporary trace of the viewers’ presence.

 

 

 

 

Just released “Hannah Uncut”


Hannah Uncut (2021), a new commission by Fotomuseum Winterthur, is now part of their collection! For Hannah Uncut we posted an online open call offering to buy someone’s phone with all its contents. The resulting work is a 52 minutes slideshow comprising 1,276 images and videos set to a loop of Marc Bolan’s “Cosmic Dancer”.

 

 

 

 

“The Bots” installed at Fotomuseum Winterthur


Eva & Franco Mattes, The Bots

Photos of new work The Bots currently installed at Fotomuseum Winterthur, for our ongoing show “Dear Imaginary Audience,”.

 

 

 

 

“The Bots (Italian market)” now streaming on DIS


Somewhere — maybe, let’s say, in Berlin — people sit behind screens in drab office buildings and get shown everything from pictures of topless Jesus to snuff videos and decide what stays, what goes, and what gets “escalated.” The bots are not bots and often, before long, they quit, burnt out staring at the worst and the most banal humanity has to offer. The Bots is a new piece that recounts interviews we conducted with the workers social media keeps hidden.

“E3: The Bots (Italian Market)”, featuring Ruby McCollister, now streaming on DIS and installed at Fotomuseum Winterthur for our exhibition Dear Imaginary Audience,

 

 

 

 

“The Bots (Arab market)” now streaming on DIS


Jake Levy’s signature foundation-free look doesn’t hide the unpleasant truths of what’s going on behind social media corporations’ own conspiratorial and neocolonialist surfaces, but it can cover up the lifelong scars remaining from viewing violent content.

The Bots recounts interviews we conducted with the workers social media keeps hidden. To tell their stories we’ve borrowed the aesthetics of fake make up tutorials used on social media to bypass censorship.

Now streaming on DIS and installed at Fotomuseum Winterthur for our exhibition Dear Imaginary Audience,