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Mounting Rene Matić’s snapshots in Perspex isn’t really enough to make them interesting | Charlotte Jansen

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A t 29, Rene Matić is the youngest ever person to win the £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize . They were nominated for their solo exhibition As Opposed to the Truth at CCA Berlin – there is currently a much smaller reconfiguration representing part of the show at the Photographers’ Gallery in London. Matić was also the youngest artist ever to be nominated for the Turner prize last year . There are things I like about Matić. I like the way they challenge what counts in life and art, and what counts as British. Their 2022 work, Upon This Rock (shown in Berlin though not in the current display in London) – a photographic installation and a film exploring the artist’s father, Paul, and his involvement with the skinhead movement – felt like it was breaking new ground, conceptually and materially.…

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