- Artist's Statement
- In the Pleasure of the Text Roland Barthes writes:
Simply, a day comes when we feel a certain need to loosen the theory a bit, to
shift the discourse, the ideolect which repeats itself, becomes consistent, and to
give it the shock of a question. Pleasure is this question. As a trivial, unworthy
name (who today would call himself a hedonist with a straight face?), it can
embarrass the text’s return to morality, to truth: to the morality of truth: it is an
oblique, a drag anchor, so to speak, without which the theory of the text would
revert to a centered system, a philosophy of meaning(64).
The photographs and the ink wash drawings both catch pleasure in the moment of
its passing. They catch bliss, intimacy between words. An ice cube on a photo or the sock
tangled in the blinds or the mirrored nickel, they are quiet moments of play. In the
drawings the ink represents the body as a thin wash, a wet ghost. They accept their brief
moments of bliss.
- Biography
- Matt Christy is a graduate of Watkins College. He lives in Nashville. He paints, draws, takes photographs, makes movies and writes.