Rene Matić
The Nina Simone Weekend Bag
£320
Leather bowling bag by 2025 Turner Prize nominee Rene Matić.
Edition Size
50
Dimensions
H 23 x W 53 x D 17cm
Finishing
Handmade leather bag with woven felt patches.
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Courtesy the artist and Arcadia Missa
About The Artwork
This edition has been made exclusively for House of Voltaire as part of the artist's immersive presentation 'The Rene Matić Soul Club'. ‘Soul time’ takes its name from the 1966 Northern Soul song by Shirley Ellis – a title that has since been used as an idiom to describe practices of self-preservation and prayer. Using the abundant milieu of the 1960s soul scene, Matić uses the poetics and aesthetics of soul as tools of salvation and redemption; to deliver one from dystopia to utopia through subcultural practice. Matić uses subculture as a kind of ‘attainable afro-futurism' where one can create spaces of breakage and glitch in real-time – in soul time.
About Rene Matić
Rene Matić (b. 1997) is a contemporary, London-based artist known for their multidisciplinary exhibitions and photographic work. She brings together themes of post-blackness, glitch feminism, and subcultural theory in a meeting place they describe as rude(ness) – to interrupt and exist in/between linear cultural narratives.
Matić has shown with high-profile institutions such as South London Gallery; London, Quench Gallery; Margate, Bold Tendencies; London, Kunsthall Stavanger; Stanvergen, Studio Voltaire; London, and Saatchi Gallery; London. Matić’s work is held in several prominent collections, including Tate; London, Fondation Louis Vuitton; Paris, UK Government Art Collection; London, and Martin Parr Foundation; Bristol.
Matić is represented by Arcadia Missa.