Experience the work of an artist ahead of his time – one whose commitment to sustainability and social contact appears increasingly vital today

Gordon Matta-Clark was an American artist who rose to prominence in the early 1970s, having developed a complex practice that encompassed architectural intervention, photography, film, installation, performance and social interactions.

Despite his early death at 35, he has emerged as one of the most influential contemporary artists of the post-minimalist generation. Open House presents a suite of Matta-Clark film works that engage with the home. His radical and striking alterations of empty suburban houses highlighted the rapidly dissolving American Dream.

Together with these works of ‘deconstruction’ are his works of fancy, where unexpected objects – a tree or a rubbish skip – become dwellings or convivial spaces. Part performance, part sculpture, these works illustrate Matta-Clark’s theories of ‘anarchitecture’, and are a fascinating insight to his expansive practice, one which questions the role of the artist, the institution, and even the art object itself.