Matthew Lutz-Kinoy , 2009, Ierformance Still

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Collage, mixed media, 2009

Deepa Chudasama, Untitled, cloth, bindis, paint, 120x 120 cm,2009

Welcome To The Story Of My Life
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy

S.T.O.R.A.G.E
Deepa Chudasama

Live Performance 30 June 2008

The Agency is pleased to present the young American artist Matthew Lutz-Kinoy. Having been made aware of his work by the curator Charles   Danby during the exhibition Soul Stripper last year, where Lutz-Kinoy in collaboration with Andreas Laracuente presented their strange hybrid between performance, art video and musical theatre, his latest performance at Urbis, Manchester was so compelling it warranted   exposure in London.

Welcome To The Story Of My Life consists of approximately 50 mins of life performance with a soundtrack by Sam Long. The act involves dance sequences, monologues, singing, action painting all of which are bound together through projected narratives. Three film narratives are given, from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Marriage of Maria Braun to the Beatnick dance scene from Funny Face with Audrey Hepburn and a previously documented performance by the artist. Lutz-Kinoy mimicks, responds to and performs over these sequences. Whilst the filmic narratives function as a kind of Leitmotif, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy layers on to that re-enactments of the filmed actions mixed with new monologue and the frantic production of action art. He acts dialogues with papier-mâché heads and leads from one action to another with   short moments of vogueing   to an   electro soundtrack performed live by musician Sam Long. Accompanying the live performance are watercolours, which attest to a gestational rhythm, collages and clay sculptures, which complement the raw performative energy.

Mathew Lutz-Kinoy, born 1984, is of a generation where the notions of post-modern quotation and hybridisation of artforms is an old hat. He moves through the media, producing collages of incredibly authentic and credibly inauthentic materials with an unerring sense of direction. As the artist puts it in conversation: "It's a kind of Rachel Harrison vs Franz West mash-up."   Lutz-Kinoy's performance is a must-see, not only because it is exquisite and his practice as a whole hinges on the centrality of   performing, but since he creates a Gesamtkunstwerk of reference materials and work in progress the exhibition that ensues will be just as worthwhile. He will perform with Sam Long at the Agency on the 30 th June from 6pm onwards.

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy has recently had solo shows at Gallery Yukiko Kawase, Paris and Cooper Union, New York as well as participating in group projects   in the Kunsthalle BadenBaden, Donaufestival Hamburg, Kunstverein Koeln, New Museum New York et al in 2009 so far.

S.T.O.R.A.G.E

Deepa Chudasama

Deepa Chudasama works conceptually with references to science and her cultural inheritance through her Gujarati roots. Chudasama focuses on organic cell structures as found in plants or the human skin tissue. She transfers these clusters onto paper and canvas both with ink and bindis ( chandlo).

Bindis have been a recent focus of discussion in art since Barti Kher's work inspired by bindis has found acclaim. However, they are a common Indian fashion accessory, which in the past once had associations to Hinduism and wedlock which are no longer in place. As fashion items they are commonly available to everyone and have even been adapted into some Western fashions.

Deepa Chudasama, Untitled, 2009,diptych, oil paint and bindis, detail

Chudasama uses bindis to "paint" with them. The multicoloured self-adhesive dots form the quasi-scientific cell clusters in her site-specific installations or become means to a contemporary stick-on pointillism. This relatively fast method of working with a readymade mark enables Chudasama to play with the conventions of visual language in recent art history and scientific disciplines.

Deepa Chudasama was born in Leicester and graduated from Goldsmith's College in 2002. She has since shown widely, a/o. Message to India, British Council touring exhibition and was most recently included in Deptford X, London.