Blurred Boundaries: Matt Belk, Diane Meyer, MSR FCJ, Marius Steiger

MSR FCJ (Mike S. Redmond, b. 1987, UK & Faye Coral Johnson, b. 1988, UK)

MSR FCJ is a collaborative project that embraces experimentation and unpredictability in their artistic process. Their works often emerge from playful yet rigorous material explorations, resulting in dynamic compositions that blur the line between painting, drawing, and object-making. Their rag-based works, layered with color and texture, suggest a history of use and transformation, inviting viewers to consider what is hidden beneath the surface. Through folds, seams, and exposed edges, they challenge traditional ideas of composition, visibility, and permanence.

Diane Meyer (b. 1976, New Jersey, USA)

Diane Meyer’s work explores memory, privacy, and the materiality of photography in the digital age. Best known for her embroidered photographs, she meticulously stitches over images with pixel-like cross-stitching, simultaneously revealing and obscuring her subjects. This act of erasure highlights absence, shifting attention to gestures, body language, and surrounding details. By merging analog craft with digital aesthetics, Meyer reflects on the ways images shape identity and collective memory, questioning the role of photography as both documentation and artifact.

Marius Steiger (b. 1999, Bern, Switzerland)

Marius Steiger’s paintings explore systems of knowledge and the unseen structures that shape our understanding of the world. His bookshelf paintings depict repositories of information devoid of text, stripping books of their authorship and placing emphasis on their physical presence. In his mushroom series, he alludes to hidden mycelium networks—vast, invisible systems that connect and sustain life. His work balances abstraction and representation, drawing attention to what is present yet concealed, structured yet organic.

Matt Belk (b. 1988, Omaha, Nebraska, USA)

Matt Belk’s work explores shifting perspectives and the intersection of natural and digital aesthetics. Using airbrush techniques, tape, and layered compositions, he creates paintings that depict fluid transitions between above and below water, seen and unseen. Influenced by his upbringing in rural hunting environments, his work often references nature while embracing a hyper-stylized, almost virtual appearance. Through a process that combines control and chance, Belk captures a world in flux, where perception is constantly reframed.