Matt Copson creates cartoonish, hand-drawn and digitally rendered laser projections that are cynical by nature, literally illuminating the absurdity of the human condition and, more specifically, the ineffability and impossibility of purpose, the futile pursuit of ambition, and trends of self-improvement and maximising ‘personal growth’. The artist’s spectral projections bathe their exhibition sites in vivid neon light that is synthetic, disconcerting and dystopian, but also soothing and entrancing. Copson foregrounds, critiques and even empathises with the contradictions personified by the human, and the willing absorption within and adoration of entertainment, mass media and nostalgia. Ultimately, Copson resolves his audience to the fact that these contradictions are unavoidable and intrinsic to life.

Written by Goldsmiths CCA

High Art

Clearing

London

Dhaka Art Summit

Dhaka

Oxford

Peer

Timothy Taylor Gallery

Brussels

Berlin

Tanya Leighton

Rodeo

Sadie Coles HQ

Paris

Amanda Wilkinson

Dublin

Ellis King

New York City

Reena Spaulings Fine Art

Vilma Gold

Melbourne

National Museum of Victoria

Imma - Irish Museum of Modern Art

Sharjah

Sharjah Art Foundation

ICA London

Swiss Institute

Fondation Louis Vuitton

Reading

Reading International

Serpentine Sackler Gallery

Matt Copson

Ucl (University College London)

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