Artist Statement

Formotion is a single-screen audio-visual piece exploring the structural forms and figurative movements of a city landscape. The work seeks to capture both the frantic pace of city life and often-overlooked moments of tranquillity.

The work combines actual speed, fast and reverse motion, to create a rhythm and structure that comments on the relationship between the urban inhabitants and their surroundings.

In Passengers Pell uses looped images and sounds as a means to reflect on the human condition within a city landscape. The video takes the viewer on a journey through a hectic and unyielding urban environment.

Artist Bio

Matthew Pell is a UK-based video artist. Since 2000 Pell has been creating single-screen videos responding to urban architectural environments. His work is concerned with an exploration of figurative movement, voyeurism and the manipulation of time and sound. Much of Pell’s practice employs looped, reversed, speeded or slowed footage, abstracted compositions, multiple frames and affected audio. Pell has also collaborated with musicians and sound artists to produce projections for live performances, music videos and video art.

Pell’s work has been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally. He lives and works in Leicester.