Sun(set)(Seed)

“The group had left at sunset. There had been agitation for some time. The lack of space and the heat of recent days surely had something to do with it. A block had gradually formed, driven by a desire to start from scratch. The countdown had begun and it was time to move quickly. Exploring the margins, accepting long stretches of wandering and blending into the surroundings until, at last, an emptiness could be found and inhabited.”

Matthieu Michaut’s artistic practice revolves around creating environments that enable a process of thought. The elements offered to the viewer are traces of a story still in the making. Through analogy, misdirection and layered detours, the artist builds a fragmented environment in which each gesture echoes the previous one. What emerges is the outline of an ambiguous reality, at once familiar and enigmatic, hovering at the edge of language, image and object