Sunday, January 12, 2020 from 8-10pm
Plexus Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Matthew Lax. Fabricated in the Actual Arctic (after Nanook) will be featured in Vitrine, an ongoing screening series of moving image artworks.
*Please note projections are viewed from the sidewalk. The project space is not open during Vitrine screen hours.
Matthew Lax’s Fabricated in the Actual Arctic (after Nanook) is a silent essay that considers several key details of the production and legacy of Robert Flaherty's seminal 1922 documentary, "Nanook of the North" (also known as, "A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic"). An image by an Inuk artist is discovered “missing” from the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) collection.
Matthew Lax (b. Baltimore, MD) is an artist, filmmaker, and writer currently based in Los Angeles, CA. His moving-image work and writing focuses on the intersection of politics and everyday life, with particular attention to issues of labor, queer histories, and the construction of language and cultural systems. His film and video works have been screened and exhibited nationally and internationally with the Viennale (Austria), IHME Contemporary (Helsinki), MIX New York (New York, NY) and MIX Brasil (São Paulo), Rencontres Internationales, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), LA Film Forum (Los Angeles), and Rencontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin). Curatorial projects include those in partnership with the Torrance Art Museum (CA), Acud Macht Neu Collective (Berlin), Human Resources (Los Angeles), the Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles), and Anthology Film Archives (New York). His writing has appeared in print and online publications including the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), ArtPractical (San Francisco), and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA). He recently published his first exhibition catalog for artist Jonathan Molina-Garcia's "Bethesday Brotherhood," with Lawndale Art Center, Dallas.