Stuff Matters

Stuff Matters – Published in 2019 in conjunction with Jessica Stockholder’s exhibition Stuff Matters at Centraal Museum Utrecht, the catalog features the latest work by the American-Canadian artist. Creating a new global installation that aims to undermine the traditional conventions that usually dictate how objects are displayed and presented in museums, Stockholder chose a series of pieces from the museum’s collection and mixed them with his own work, exploring how the meaning of things can change depending on context, and inviting the juxtaposition of other people’s work to inflect the meaning of his own. As with Stockholder’s previous works, Stuff Matters is the result of a playful process in which the artist collected objects and then assembled them, rewriting new meanings and directions. The result of a sincere, open and non-hierarchical attitude towards the world, Stuff Matters raises questions about the different relationships that link objects belonging to different contexts, and ends up stimulating the imagination and fantasy life.