"I live on a very busy little street. Daytimes are a mixture of passing traffic, and recovering alcoholics from the centre next door. The vans and trucks onload and offload boxes of merchandise, the soaks roll around on the pavement or fight like toddlers until the police arrive… This is the ebb and flow of the little street I call Heaven."
The most recent installations of Mat COLLISHAW for Cosmic Galerie take the form of video projections on old furniture resembling a neo-Victorian interior. If these objects essentially belong to the realm of the inanimate and the perennial, the principle and the content of the videos are linked to a contemporary universe, to life and its fragility…
Central to Mat Collishaw’s work are the themes of illusion and desire, which he uses to draw us into an arena where every-day conventions are broken down and questioned.