Monday, September 15, 2008

Matthew Ritchie


Ritchie 's aim is to tell two stories simultaneously from two points in time and from a perspective only he understands. Ritchie says about the hidden narrative in his work: ‘It’s all made up. Except for all the parts that are true.’ Looking at them is a learning game which unfolds in slowly, learning and destroying new things in conjunction.

Ritchie describes legends about the universe that unfold across the body of his work. It is difficult to understand his narrative, possibly that his story aligns itself with the morphology of video games and exist in parallel dimensions. In other words, the viewer has to become familiar with Ritchie’s iconography to play his game.

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