Matt Saunders Double Exposure (Hsu Feng) Year 2018 Medium C-print with colour retouching ink and oil paint Dimensions 29.7 x 21.6 cm Top pick Charles Asprey, Arts Patron, co-editor of PICPUS and co-director of The London Fountain Company - 'Saunders is a real alchemist and this retouched C-print is very intense.' About the work This drawing relates to a series of work I first showed in Shanghai in late 2017, and is a portrait of the Taiwanese-born actress and producer, Hsu Feng, here in her iconic performance in King Hu’s A Touch of Zen (1971). The paper for the drawing is a c-print made by passing light through a “negative” I painted with oil on linen of Hsu in exhausted repose. It was a trial proof from the darkroom. This drawing returns to the subject a year later, using photo retouching colors and a little oil paint to inscribe a second—very different—gaze and to double Hsu’s portrait. Date and country of birth 1975, US About the artist Born Tacoma 1975, Matt Saunders lives and works between New York, Berlin and Cambridge, MA. He graduated from AB Harvard University (1997), and MFA Yale (2002). Saunders works across the boundaries of media. He enacts painting as a time-based and transitive medium through his camera-less photography, multi-screen animation and innovative painting and printmaking processes. Best known for his haunting portraits and landscapes (the imagery culled from a myriad of sources including avant-garde cinema and found photographs) and moving-image works, Saunders’ practice uses analogue materials to explore the fleetingness, mobility and affective power of images. Selected exhibitions include Photography’s Last Century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2020); The World on Paper, Palais Populaire, Berlin (2018); Poems of Our Climate, Marian Goodman Gallery, London (2018); Currents 114: Matt Saunders, St Louis Art Museum (2017); solo exhibition, Tank, Shanghai (2017); In the Abstract, MassMOCA, North Adams (2017-18); Double Take, Drawing Room, London (2016); solo exhibition, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris and New York (2016, 2015, 2014, 2011); solo exhibition, Blum & Poe, Tokyo and Los Angeles (2016, 2014, 2011); collections hang, MoMA, New York (2014); Cinema and Painting, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington (2014); Test Pattern, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2013); Century Rolls, Tate, Liverpool (2012); and Parallel Plot, Renaissance Society, Chicago (2010).