Exhibitions

Matthew Hilger

September 2013 | E4C

Seattle, WA
Seven minutes and thirty seconds after leaving the house you’re still convinced that you’ve forgotten something
Screening September 2013 – September 2014
Opening: First Thursday, September 5, 2013 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Matthew Hilger writes, "More traffic accidents involving pedestrians happen at crosswalks with signs than those without. In Copenhagen, the city built streets without signs or signals, making things possible but not certain to happen. By following the varied surface markings through an empty parking lot I’m interested in exploring what John Keats described as, ‘Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.’ Make decisions that keep going and going, turning and going again without hesitation."

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About the Artist

Matthew Hilger was born in 1986 in Chicago, Illionis and he currently lives and works in Seattle, Washington. He holds an MFA from the University of Washington and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. Since 2009, Hilger has been a core member at The Bikery, which uses collaborative, hands-on education in bicycles and cycling to liberate movement and increase access to knowledge, and to share the revelation that all forms of knowledge can be earned without permission.