For Foul Matters, Mathis Altmann has created a new series of sculptures, continuing his ongoing material excavation into the infrastructural 'guts' of urban spaces.
Altmann frequently works with concrete, as well as construction debris such as pipes and wires, to create rough-hewn architectural miniatures that are nested with household objects relating to the management of order in human bodies – hygiene, sanitation, waste disposal. Often fitted with peepholes and pinhole cameras for peering at the tiny rooms within, Altmann's contrast of interior and exterior narrates a voyeuristic intimacy focused on the banal.
In Foul Matters a second-hand sofa, leaning against the wall to furnish the main part of the exhibition space will accompany his sculptures. Though doubtless already host to an array of microorganisms, here the base and cushions are covered with the exoskeletons of thousands of mealworms. Functioning as stagnant, occupying vessels, the body casings conflate architecture and anatomy to inform a discursive motif: stripped out shells with no insides.
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