Matt Copson

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