Mathew Hale uses collages to highlight unconscious desires or repressed historical traumas The press photos of the suicide of the wife of German chancellor Helmut Kohl and tragically deceased princess Diana are strangely juxtaposed with nudity and the inevitable swastika. In the style of true surrealists, Mathew Hale uses mixed media collages to highlight unconscious desires or repressed historical traumas. Deeply rooted in the tradition of Dadaist collage, political photomontage and the art of surrealism, the subject matter of Mathew Hale's work is versatile but never easy, as he tackles the topics of politics, philosophy, history, sex, religion and popular culture. He uses paper clippings and advertising to create unusual juxtapositions that represent a flammable mixture that never fails to blow the mind of the people who view it. The artist starts his creative process by sitting at a table with a clear mind trying to come up with something fresh. He attended Winchester School of Art and Goldsmiths, University of London before moving to Berlin in the year of 2000. Mathew Hale - of Mrs Gillray Mathew Hale Biography His body of work encompasses different layers of reality that question the historical construction as well as modern societal structures.
The UK-born Berlin-based artist employs book pages, graphic structures, and ink figures to create an array of visual structures including provocative collages of varying dimensions, wall installations, and videos. His work consists of dismembered images, mind-bending hybrids and impossible juxtapositions that can satisfy the most unusual desire. For British artist, Mathew Hale art is about making things awkward and foreign.
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