Archiv*
April 15–May 21, 2016

  • Photo courtesy of the artist

    Photo courtesy of the artist

  • Photo courtesy of the artist

  • Photo courtesy of the artist

    Photo courtesy of the artist

  • Photo courtesy of the artist

    Photo courtesy of the artist

Fictional color
Broken games
Retired diagnostics
Functional fixedness
Corrupted transfers
Without instructions

Using a variety of processes, this exhibition is a play on the photograph as document, drawing attention to the medium’s connection to language. Documents are analogous to tools; they maintain a specific functional fixedness and resist reconfiguration by the user (reader). Useful documents substantiate history, whereas useless documents have no history. What was full of information is now empty.

Presented by

Gallery Kayafas

Artists

Matthew Gamber
Matthew Gamber matthewgamber.com

Matthew Gamber (b. 1977) lives and works in Somerville, Massachusetts. He is the recipient of a Blanche E. Colman Award, a Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the New Photography Grant from Humble Arts Foundation. His recent exhibitions include Unfixed: The Fugitive Image, Transformer Station, 2016; Still Life Lives!, Fitchburg Art Museum, 2013–2014, Basic Ingredients Of A Complex World, Gallery Kayafas, 2013, Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 2012–2013, The 2012 deCordova Biennial, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 2012.

Gamber is an Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the College of the Holy Cross, having previously taught at Lesley University College of Art and Design, Boston College, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Savannah College of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He has also previously worked on archive and digitization projects with Harvard University and the Boston Public Library for Digital Commonwealth.