Matt Keegan: Lengua
David Berezin: How should we start this?
Matt Keegan: I think the best way to preface it is that I recently went to your studio and it was clear that there’s an affinity between our work, even though the work is quite different. We both have an interest in language, specifically familiar phrases. For Altman Siegel, I selected phrases that are relevant to my mother’s ESL flash cards. It seems like you are working from a foundation of references that are filtered through television and contemporary popular cinema...
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Matt Keegan
It's Not You It's Me, 2011
Laser cut steel30 x 30 in
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Matt Keegan
Lengua, 2011
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Matt Keegan
¿Cómo Se Dice?, 2011
Five silkscreens on paper
28 x 22 in each71.12 x 55.88 cm each
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Matt Keegan
¿Cómo Se Dice? (detail), 2011
Five silkscreens on paper
28 x 22 in each71.12 x 55.88 cm each
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Matt Keegan
Lengua, 2011
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Matt Keegan
It Goes Without Saying, 2011
Laser cut steel
27 x 27 in68.58 x 68.58 cm
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Matt Keegan
Nothing To Declare, 2011
Laser cut steel
16 x 34 in40.64 x 86.36 cm
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Matt Keegan
Nothing To Declare, 2011
Laser cut steel
16 x 34 in40.64 x 86.36 cm
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Matt Keegan
Lengua, 2011
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Matt Keegan
He Said She Said, 2011
Laser cut steel
30 x 30 x 30 in76.2 x 76.2 x 76.2 cm
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Matt Keegan
Lengua, 2011
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Matt Keegan
Lengua, 2011
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Matt Keegan
Images are words/Las imagenes son palabras, 2011
Artist book
774 pages -
Matt Keegan
Untitled, 2011
Screenprint on paper
55 1/4 x 40 in140.34 x 101.6 cm
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Matt Keegan
Lengua, 2011
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Matt Keegan
No No No, 2011
Laser cut steel
34 x 34 in86.36 x 86.36 cm
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Matt Keegan
Lengua, 2011
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Matt Keegan
How is an Alphabet a Mother?, 2011
Twenty-six steel letters
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Matt Keegan
Lengua, 2011
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Matt Keegan
"N" as in Nancy, 2011
Looped video -
Matt Keegan
Images Are Words / Las Imagenes Son Palabras (Preoccupied), 2010
C-print
60 x 47 1/8 in152.4 x 119.7 cm