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Join us on February 28 at 2 p.m., when Galleri Image presents a talk with British artist Matthew Burdis, the artist behind the exhibition We Knew the Terrain, where he will delve into the exhibition and his artistic practice.In the talk, Burdis will discuss work in the exhibition titled We Knew the Terrain. The title is taken from a line in his most recent film Hinter: An Apocalypse, 2026. The film revolves around the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, the northernmost county in England. Referencing the most famous depiction of the tree as the ‘Robin Hood tree’, after its appearance in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves starring Kevin Costner, Burdis will discuss how the film engages with the way media colonises the world around us, overwriting the landscape with new histories and why he chose to shoot the film primarily using infrared and thermal cameras.
Burdis will also present the other two other works in the exhibition The series and video work Zipped-Up Blues and the video work Lindisfarna One One, considering how they are all connected through landscape, collective memory and the subtle double-vision of real and imagined geography.
The talk will take place in the exhibition itself, and it will be possible to ask the artist questions.
About the artist
Matthew Burdis (b. 1993, Newcastle upon Tyne) is an artist-filmmaker. He studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design; Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin; The Royal College of Art, London, and at The University of Sunderland.
He makes films that incorporate photography to investigate a moment or memory of a specific location, often focusing on a tangible or performative object as an anchor point. This includes his 2023 film Interior (The Spectator), narrated by Willem Dafoe, which contemplates the artist’s relationship to the painter Howard Hodgkin, through working in his home and archive.
Burdis’ work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and as part of Serpentine Cinema: On Earth, Missing and Memory and Serpentine Cinema & General Ecology: On Earth at the Long Now at Kraftwerk Berlin. In 2023 Burdis’ work was selected for New Contemporaries and as such was exhibited that year at the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, and in 2024 at Camden Arts Centre, London.
The talk and exhibition are supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, The Augustinus Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation, The Louis-Hansen Foundation, and The William Demant Foundation.
EDIT: This event was originally set to take place on 7 February, but has been rescheduled.
Matthew Burdis. Photo: Hanna Hrynkevich.
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