MATTHEW WILKINS

Matthew Wilkins is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art and is based in London.

Still from 'A Series of Disappearances', 2008.

Wilkins talking about his work:

My work is inspired by ideas concerning what it means for someone to disappear? I am trying to compliment this idea by using and showing the ironies that exist in the photographic and cinematic medium. Everything is photographed and can been seen; photography and film brings us closer to the world and yet the medium itself is a barrier between the viewer and what is being represented. How has the photographic medium changed the way we see our selves and the way we perceive such elemental things as time? How does the history of images inform our imagination and so influence the way we see things?

DVD artwork for ‘Case Number: SA1170/06′, 2008.

Taking influence from the cinematic devices used by key critical film makers such as Michael Haneke, Peter Greenaway and John Smith I try to create situations that require the viewer to make their own active links and in doing so transfer some of the film making process back to the viewer. Primarily, my interests boil down to a cultural and philosophical interest in the world of imagery. Including ideas raised by Roland Barthes in ‘Camera Lucida’ and other key thinkers such as Guy-Ernest Debord and Jean Baudrillard. These ideas are very important to me and I try to include these ideas as underlying questions in my work.

All images courtesy and copyright the artists.