Gordon Matta-Clark : Breaking the Limits.

In May 2017, I have been giving this lecture at the Serralves Foundation in Porto, Portugal, within the exhibition “SPLITTING, CUTTING, WRITING, DRAWING, EATING… GORDON MATTA-CLARK”. I have been working on this amazing artist for more than ten years, in and outside the academic context. For the last days of the Gordon Matta-Clark’s exhibition in Paris, at the Jeu de Paume’s museum, I would like to share this work I have done first of all in the memory of Gordon Matta-Clark himself and to show how deeply his work is an inspiration for all of us today. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*pMifxTRvEMcdF9_DPxxHaw.jpeg" style="height:340px; width:700px" /> Gordon Matta Clark, Conical Intersect, 1975. Collaged gelatin silver prints. Galerie Marian Goodman. 1. EPIPHANIES My first encounter with GMC was in 2006, in the context of a classroom. I was teaching in a Postgraduate Design Program in Paris, and the workshop was about individual creative process. I was asking my students to bring their main sources of inspiration, in forms of images, objects, stories, as the basis for one-to-one interviews. Isabelle, a French student, showed me a picture of Conical Intersect, one of the last building cuttings made by Gordon Matta-Clark in Paris, in 1975. I still remember the shock, which I called an «epiphany» in a lecture, some years ago. What is rarely said about research — research being artistic or academic — is that we don’t choose our subject, the subject finds us, stops us, hurts us, points us, slams us. This is always a shock, may this shock be soft or violent, that will never be forgotten. <a href="https://medium.com/@audrey.amarylis/gordon-matta-clark-breaking-the-limits-8bce9b18ddd4">Website</a>