Studio for Immediate Spaces
Yon Matauko+
“A queer practice emerges, not only because it is done by a queer artist or because it tackles a queer subject matter, but because Matauko’s approach is interested in a volatile and impalpable thing that is materially and metaphorically subversive: dust. Dust is queer. It alters material and attacks it; it comes from the deterioration of matter and accumulates in interesting ways. It is always present. Dust is old structures wearing, weathering, and transforming into a new form. It takes the shape of surfaces and furniture, yet doesn't surrender to them. It may manifest in existing shapes, but its accumulation is a collective effort making it anew in contrast, just as queer folk reveal the precariousness of living under certain power structures and survive by becoming dynamic agents of change.”
Excerpt from an essay on Yon Matauko by Baha Görkem Yalım