We all operate within certain conventions, but we can't control everything Gas gets passed and pimples unexpectedly come. We can accept all of these things, so long as they are maintained. Weeds are the horticultural equivalent of a zit. They represent a breakdown, either a failure or refusal to fight the perfunctory battle against entropy. One weed is a forgivable blemish.
Overgrowth is hopeless abandon.
Overgrowth inside is the cultivation of abandonment, a rewriting of rules. The celebration of failure. Regardless of medium, Matelli's work depicts consistent interests, such as making ideas real, exploring unexpected limitations and expressing conceptual preoccupations that take shape as a fascination with strange subjects rendered through hyper-real artificiality. Matelli's work has been exhibited at galleries internationally and has been the subject of critical attention in such publications such as The New York Times, Village Voice, Art in America, Art Papers and New Art Examiner.