Matt Collishaw
The ghostly nature of photography has long fascinated Collishaw, from an early work in which he restaged the fake fairy photographs that fooled Arthur Conan Doyle to a recent installation of terrifying crime-scene pictures. Here he uses VR and archival material to revisit the first ever photography exhibition in Victorian England.
"Mat Collishaw can always find the intrinsically evil in photography. His subjects are often shocking and horrific – but it’s always the medium which is most disturbing. In The Eighth Day, Collishaw reproduces a photo of a real lynching found in an old book – but he does it in a monumental mosaic. Originally used in ancient times to immortalise gods, saints, and martyrs, mosaics were used to preserve timeless morals. But there’s something freakishly futuristic about Collishaw’s epic – black and white images are a modern invention, the miniscule tiles convincingly parody computer pixellation" - Saatchi Gallery
Reflection
I have only just been introduced to the work of Matt Collishaw, and yet on first impressions it seems to possess highly visual qualities. The kind of work that holds a bunch of secrets a slowly draws out the moment that it tells you. I find the process the artist has used to be unfamiliar and shall have to research his portfolio in much more detail before passing judgement.
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