Matthew Harrison

T-SHIRTS WITH MARCEL DUCHAMPS ARM DETAIL. (2005) height 25cm, width 75cm, depth 57cm, t shirt size medium. (click for next image…)

T-SHIRTS WITH MARCEL DUCHAMPS ARM DETAIL. (2005) height 25cm, width 75cm, depth 57cm, t shirt size medium. (click for next image…)

 

T-SHIRTS WITH MARCEL DUCHAMPS ARM DETAIL.
2005
height 25cm, width 75cm, depth 57cm, t shirt size medium.

MDF, gloss paint, fittings, individually numbered edition of 20 printed t-shirts in various colours.

A stack of carefully folded t-shirts, the order of which corresponds to the edition number of the t-shirt. The pile is reduced as they are acquired or distributed. When worn it appears as though the print of Duchamp’s arm is resting across the shoulders of the wearer in a supporting and encouraging position.

Statement
Formed through conceptual rigour and strategy my practice develops through an involved process of merciless art direction. It is then carefully crafted with an attention to detail that can border on the obsessive.

It is vital my ideas are located firmly at the core of the objects and projects I produce. I work hard to avoid attaching or shoehorning surplus material in to them. Works are made as something not made about something.

The work operates at the periphery, like a prop or prototype contained within a larger event. Some are installed precisely on a threshold; others are shifting further from it. They are able to leak from their usual spaces, and also extend out of the normal finite time scale associated with showing work. With this leakage from normal duration and site, works become absorbed in to the ‘real world’, this transition allows its status to be examined.

Many objects produced within my practice find their way into the world as a speculative gift. The gift is a device. Its owner and the subsequent site of the work become implicated in its systems and life.

Contact

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