Mathew Weir: Against the Irreversible

Farbvision, Schönhauser Allee 28, 10435 Berlin, Germany

12th September 2020 to 17th October 2020

Solo presentation in artist Paul McDevitt’s project space Farbvision, with an accompanying essay ‘Making Friends with Horror’ by Matt Carey-Williams:

“Mathew Weir … makes friends with all sorts of horrors. Getting cosy with the horrors of death, history, greed and slavery allows him to (re)consider our contemporary repugnance of life, politics, capitalism and systemic racism, all of which are magnified today by the Coronavirus pandemic. So it is that this exhibition acts like the mouth of Conrad’s Congo or the sulphuric, kaleidoscopic den of darkness that is Kurtz’s hideaway on an uncharted Cambodian river. Mathew’s show becomes an estuary of effluence; a delta where tributaries of all types of horror meet and flow into one another …”.

Mathew Weir: Against the Irreversible installation view. Left to right: Hellmouth II, 2019-2020, Hellmouth I, 2019-2020, The Ghosts of Slavery Ships, 2019-20. Image: Paul McDevitt

Mathew Weir: Against the Irreversible installation view. Left: Black Cat Bone, 2019-20. Centre: Against the Irreversible, 2020, cast iron, steel, 24ct gold leaf. Right: Mother, 2019-20. Image: Paul McDevitt

Mathew Weir: Against the Irreversible installation view. Black Cat Bone, 2019-20. Image: Paul McDevitt

Mathew Weir: Against the Irreversible installation view. Mother, 2019-20. Image: Paul McDevitt

Mathew Weir: Against the Irreversible installation view. Hellmouth I, 2019-20. Image: Paul McDevitt

Mathew Weir: Against the Irreversible installation view. Left: Hellmouth II, 2019-2020. Right: Hellmouth I, 2019-2020. Image: Paul McDevitt

Mathew Weir: Against the Irreversible installation view. Against the Irreversible, 2020, cast iron, steel, 24ct gold leaf. Image: Paul McDevitt

Mathew Weir: Against the Irreversible installation view. The Ghosts of Slavery Ships, 2019-20. Image: Paul McDevitt