Join ONE Archives artist-in-residence Noorann Matties on a studio tour from her home-studio in Philadelphia. Matties will discuss her research and process working on her new body of work featured in NEED ME, or, (de)mystifying the myth of the modern primitive, and share her current projects. There will be ample time for audience participation discussing interdisciplinary practice involving memory, craft, abstraction, and self-imagery.
Noorann Matties (b. 1994) is an artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Her work aims to translate the wall of sound inside via the systematic cataloging and organization of imagery surrounding wish-fulfillment, fantasy, memory, and personal mythology. Harnessing the meditative processes of beadwork and analog photography she channels a deeper truth through the medium of flow state.
This program is offered in association with the exhibition NEED ME.
NEED ME, or, (de)mystifying the myth of the modern primitive is the first ever public exhibition to present the Western history of body piercing and its roots in queer history. A culmination of years of archival research, NEED ME traces the networks of queer individuals throughout the sexual underground who were essential to modern piercing history through magazines, correspondence, ephemera, and artwork. NEED ME explores icons such as Jim Ward and Fakir Musafar and brings together artworks and artists who contributed to what has been termed the age of the ‘modern primitive.’ Artwork and ephemera by Catherine Opie, Ron Athey, Bob Flanagan & Sheree Rose, Leigh Bowery, Annie Sprinkle, and Efrain Gonzalez illuminate the nuanced and layered drive toward the modern practice of piercing. New works by ONE’s artist-in-residence Noorann Matties provide a haunting intervention on the fraught history of the ‘modern primitive.’ Sculptures by Xandra Ibarra, and Panteha Abareshi and a multimedia installation by Angelo Madsen enrich an intergenerational exhibition that foregrounds queer desire, alterity, and community.