Exhibition / That Moment When You Can See The Crack In The World by Matthieu Croizier

About the event

Matthieu Croizier's work explores the fluid nature of identity, challenging traditional beauty standards. The Swiss artist embraces the different, the new and grotesque, creating dreamlike scenes in which bodies are transformed. The images portray an act of metamorphosis. Reality becomes malleable, things are not condemned to be as they were defined. It is a love letter to the abnormal, where bodies are set free from what they are supposed to look like. Croizier tilts and shifts paradigms to shape a world in which the words “beauty” and “ugliness” cease to mean much. Monstrosity is claimed as tender and spectacular, queerness is a magical and constant act of mutation. If the photographs we are used to seeing represent what we are able to imagine, “That Moment When You Can See The Crack In The World” expands the coordinates of what we feel is possible. Reality has opened up, free and in flux.

Bio

In 2021 he was named British Journal of Photography's Ones to Watch 2021, and selected among the Futures Talents 2021. Also a laureate of Paris Photo's Carte Blanche Students 2020. He recently exhibited at institutions such as Kunsthalle Trier, the Centre d’Art Contemporain Yverdon-les-Bains, and the Swiss Design Awards 2023. His work has been featured in numerous group shows and festivals including in Athens, Milan, Paris, London, Braga, and Guadalajara. In March 2024, he published his first book, "Everything goes dark a little further down" with Mörel Books. Beyond his personal projects, he undertakes commissions for clients comprising M le Monde, Esquire Italy, Zeit Magazine, Art Basel, On Running, Salomon, and Les Inrockuptibles.

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