Rene Matic
Token of Self Imposed Exile Felt Embroidered Keyring
£25
Artist-designed limited edition keyring by 2025 Turner Prize nominee Rene Matic, exclusive to House of Voltaire.
Edition Size
200
Dimensions
3.5 x 11 cm
Finishing
Woven felt embroidery.
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 Matic Soul Club'. Using the abundant milieu of the 1960s soul scene, Matic 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 Matic
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.