Matthew Brannon

Mouse Trap, Light Switch

Mouse Trap, Light Switch © Matthew Brannon

08.10.10 >< 05.12.10

Matthew Brannon (°1971, New York) gets inspired by everyday objects and disposable items such as take-out-menus, advertisements and posters as well as slips-of-the-tongue and overheard conversations. Elements from these sources are reworked in highly original designs.

Brannon makes paintings, prints, spatial installations and sound works. For his works on paper he uses slightly antiquated or labour-intensive techniques such as letterpress or screen prints. His compositions combine in a special way recognizable images with poetic fragments.

Matthew Brannon presents an inventive visual language which the onlooker can easily recognize. At first glance his works show a certain elegance, but at the same time they contain a humorous and social undercurrent.

Photobook Matthew Brannon

His spatial installations are much like the scene of a crime in a noir film, where familiar objects are arranged in mysterious configurations. His works conjure up the modern metropolis, such as airports, hotels and impersonal public spaces and invite the viewer to find new meanings to familiar elements.

'Mouse Trap, Light, Switch' is the second and revised configuration of the exhibition, formerly titled, 'Reservations' from the Ursula Blickle Stiftung curated by Daniel Birnbaum. In January of 2011 a third manifestation will take place at the Portikus, in Frankfurt.

Check Brannon's biography and exhibitions on the Office Baroque website.