matt lambert
jumping into the bush
Opening Saturday 7th of December 12-17.00
07/12/24-04/01/25 Wed-Sat: 12-17
They say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. A medieval proverb about falconry to tell us that it is better to have something than nothing. A concept that has been terribly twisted today to accept the terror and be happy with what little there is.
But what if we just let go of certain power and control and jumped into the bush while the birds sing?
Will you hold my hand?
No one says it will be easy but at least we will still be each other. Together we can hold the flowers and witness their ecstatic energy to open practice and find our balance. We can listen to the murmurs and the pandimonium of the birds.
Maybe it is here we can be grateful, not for what we have but what is with and around. There is no need to capitalize and dominate here. Tending, caring and holding will nourish us and soon we will forget the names of what we once thought we owned.
Entrances from stairs from Dronningens gate or both sides of the Cathedral.
Welcome!
bio
matt lambert is a non-binary, trans, multidisciplinary collaborator and co-conspirator working towards equity, inclusion, and reparation. Their practice is based in polydisciplinamory, entangling making, writing, curating, collaborating, and performing creating systems for platform building and methodologies to talk with and not at in regard to the othered body, allowing joy and pleasure as crucial to develop alternative models of institutional existence. Currently they are based in Stockholm Sweden as a Doktorand in artistic practicee in visual, applied and spacial arts at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design where they also teach.lamberts research is an investigation of wandering/cruising with craft as a companion to explore how its languages and discourses contribute to processes of equity such as decolonization and can challenge ivory tower academic structures. They have published, curated, exhibited, and are collected internationally. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design (New York, U.S.), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas, U.S.), Homografiska Museet (Dals Långed, Sweden) The Havgapet Collection, (Sleneset, Norway) and published in texts such as Cultural Affairs: Art Without Borders published by Degruyter. lambert was a 2020 Curatorial Fellow at Center for Craft (Ashville, U.S.) and holds an MA in Critical Craft Theory from Warren Wilson College and an MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
lambert has actively contributed writing to Studio magazine, C magazine, Metalsmith, Klimt02, The Vessel, Surface Design Journal, Art Jewelry Forum, and Garland and maintains a running column titled Settings and Findings in Lost in Jewellery Magazine. They were the guest editor for Decorating Dissidence Journal issue 15# Tool, Use, Mastery.