Transformed or distorted during the development process, Matthew Brandt’s images expand upon photography’s limits. His oeuvre of process-heavy works will be on view at Rossi & Rossi from 27 January through 9 March 2024 in Learning to Surf, the American artist’s first solo exhibition in Asia. The presentation also showcases a new series of prints on glass titled Swell (2023), substantiated after his September 2023 visit to Hong Kong.

Brandt (b. 1982) photographs subjects that exist through their materiality. For instance, in Lakes and Reservoirs (2011–13), the bodies of water he captured on camera were the same ones in which the resulting C-prints were bathed. The artist had no control over how the emulsion layers would react to the collected lake water, only how long the photographic papers were soaked. Hence, each unique result is erratic in its faithfulness to the original image.

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