Matthias Gubler: A Quiet Rage Against the Economies of Distraction and Destruction

“When living in a time where digital media begin to affect our sense of that time lived, and even obscure life itself, then we ought to realize that we have taken a wrong turn somewhere. Any gesture that goes against the grain of the zeitgeist must be called radical. One artist who is doing just that is Matthias Gubler (*1981 in Zürich), who offers us pause, to reconsider the overlooked, seemingly obsolete and often fragile fragments of the everyday. In his ongoing video series fffound, for example, he transforms the mundane into a space of contemplation, through the meticulous animation of ordinary objects, challenging our perceptions of time, value, and presence. His work opens up questions about how we engage with the world around us and the significance we assign to the seemingly insignificant.

Where the 2023 iteration of fffound relied on an open-frame, skeletal structure that lined-up multiple, hand-held monitors, inviting viewers to rummage through their contents, the current version of the work—as presented at blackprint/ gallery in Zürich between September 25th and October 30th, 2025—turns each screen into a distinct object of contemplation […].”

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