Meet Pierre Lionel Matte
Meet Pierre Lionel Matte Visual artist in Velferden's programme WASTE / DEPOSIT.
Pierre has been working with us in September and October 2023. During this period, he worked on an audiovisual project based on the sand dump at Sandbekk and the last hanging cable in the area. He himself writes about his stay:
"By spending several hours every day in the old Sandbekk mining area, climbing the steep sandy slopes and walking through the rows of geometrically planted trees, I have seen how the almost heroic efforts of previous generations have also created a number of new problems. In response to this physical experience, I have started a video and sound project that will attempt to express this duality."
We're very much looking forward to seeing how his work based on the connections here in Sokndal continues to develop in the time to come.
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Pierre Lionel Matte is a visual artist whose work is based on his own personal biography and daily events, politics and literature discussing national identity, xenophobia, ecology and art history. He is concerned with how personal encounters with people and places inspire his art in an eternal process of change. The work is realized through sculptures, photography, installations, books, videos, animation, sound, drawing, painting and text. Some projects are linked to political activism, used by organizations or published in books and magazines.
Matte has exhibited at Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo, Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art, Rogaland Art Centre, Kunsthuset Kabuso, Greenlight District Art Festival and Chapelle St. Jaques, St. Gaudens in France.
www.plmatte.no
