An exhibition by Matthew Burbidge scattered and reconfigured by its visitors turned collectors.
In the spring of 2020, to close his exhibition The Gaps in my Knowledge II at La Salle de bains (Lyon), Matthew Burbidge invited visitors to take possession of the objects presented and to become collectors of them. They could then send the artist a photograph of the work they had composed and installed, with Matthew Burbidge committing himself to making the drawing that would then become the certificate.
The book Best in Show reproduces and presents (on a scale of 1) all the drawings made by Matthew Burbidge, this book becoming in turn the exhibition and the catalog of a scattered collection.
Limited edition of 200 copies.
Matthew Burbidge (born 1970, Cukfield, England), after studying philosophy, studied art in London at Central Saint Martins and Chelsea College of Art and Design.
From the outset, he produced unclassifiable works that constantly challenged and questioned their originality and authority. Playing with the classifications and codes of modernity, he created exhibitions whose forms varied from the most dandy white cube to what could be an exhibition of a flea market stall. It was when he moved to Berlin in the early 2000s that he developed his projects and became involved in the Berlin art scene also by conducting curatorial projects such as Essays and Observations (2010-2013) or Radical Praxes (2015-2016).
