Julián Matta
RESIDENCIES Arte Vittal

Julián Matta is an visual artist who currently works as a lecturer at the National University of the Northeast, Corrientes, Argentina.. He was born in Chaco, Argentina, who earned the opportunity to carry out a micro-residency through the award Premio Arte Vittal in 2015. During the time he carried out the micro-Residency, he was re-thinking the work he had produced in the past in order to structure and focus his future works. We collaborated in the conceptualisation of his work as well as in the application process for the international opportunities.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I am a multidisciplinary artist. I studied film and my thoughts are structured within the classic narrative. I work with drawing, painting, video, film and site-specific. I am interested in showing the process of construction of the work with an ironic and cynical tone. I also seek to experiment with shape in order to reveal its artifice. I believe that my work is constantly in progress and I try to integrate the viewer, dialogue with him or her. I research mechanisms of seduction and manipulation in mass culture: classic Disney animation, superheroes archetypes and Hollywood stories.

In 2015 my visual and narrative concerns led me to assemble a team of audiovisual productions as an intervention to a room as a film set. Building a tour through a lugubrious and decadent atmosphere, drawing a blurry line between representation and the represented.