Matt Keegan (1976) is a Brooklyn based artist whose practice examines the complexities of language and cognitive processes. Personal narratives are often a starting point for his work, and the roots of Keegan's practice are tied firmly to the socio-political. By scrutinizing ways and tools through which meaning is constructed, Keegan examines archetypes and symbols, common to global culture, and questions principles and circumstances under which is visual content generated and consumed.

Part of “Horizon”, Keegan's solo exhibition in 2013, - Latitude
and - Longitude a
re two ready-made white blinds, set against a blue background, echoing the color of the sky. Playing with principles of illusion, disguise, and staging, Keegan explores some of the tools tied to the construction of representation and notions of truth. - Latitude
and - Longitude
belong to a larger group of works, which address the idea of an artwork's horizontality and verticality in regard to its reading. With the horizontal driven context of the exhibition as its point of departure, heightened among other, by the exhibition's title (Horizon) and the display of its works, Latitude and Longitude scrutinize modes of representation and ideas tied to the construction of meaning through the gesture of mediation. Their direct implication to longitude and latitude becomes a reference to map locators and a direct relation to air travel, the backbone of the Horizon exhibition, which established a relation between Keegan and Lisbon.



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