MATTHEW PELL
Artist Statement

Matthew Pell is a Video Artist producing both personal and commissioned projects.

Inspired by modern architecture and urban environments Pell's work concerns itself with an exploration of figurative movement, voyeurism and the manipulation of time and sound.

Much of Pell's work utilises looped, reversed, speeded or slowed footage, abstracted compositions, multiple frames and effected audio. The aim of all these techniques is to reflect upon the human condition within a city landscape. These observations and statements are for the viewer to validate, discard or propose new.

More recent work Dusk, Aches & Fireworks have been collaborations with musicians and sound artists. These pieces have foreshadowed the human form. Conceptually the work has dealt with the physical & psychological effect of watching or being watched, sexual desire, memory, primeval fears including loss and loneliness. Sound, though musically conventional, remains an integral element of the work.

The audience is asked to respond to the work on an individual, personal level

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