Juan Cruz: I don't know what I'm doing but I'm trying very hard

8 Sep-16 Sep 2018

Overview

The artist's fourth show with Matt's Gallery speaks to an interest and awareness of remaining somehow on the margins of art making. The videos shown have grown out of a series of photographs made by the artist after taking a weekly run; photographs that were not originally intended as art works but which were subsequently noticed as images that might betray some insight. A rucksack containing a series of print outs of these selfies was stolen from the artist while he attended the funeral of a former teacher, and this experience affected a shift in the artist's thinking about the work, leading him to consider them as a form of auto-obituary.