“MF”
Matthew Greaves
22 Mar → 13 Apr 2013

The prop-comedic video and sculptural works in MF draw heavily on the fraught agitprop of the men’s rights movement to denude anti-feminist arguments and some locals who propound them.

“At once sophisticated and banal. Deceptively “progressive” and proudly backward. It deploys both the “new” findings of “scientific research” and the dime-store moralism of yesteryear; it turns into media sound bites both the glib pronouncements of pop-psych trend-watchers and the frenzied rhetoric of New Right preachers.” (Backlash, Susan Faludi).

Matthew Greaves is a Melbourne-based artist who employs readymades and performance in his low-tech sculptures, videos and photography. He has exhibited nationally and internationally at spaces including TCB art inc., Melbourne; Appendix Project Space, Portland (USA); and is to present work at HomeShop, Beijing (China) in 2013.