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Matthew Brandt — Windex Scan 027
Matthew Brandt

Windex Scan 027

2013

Windex Scan 027 presents a startlingly intimate encounter with the act of looking itself. Produced in 2013, the work belongs to Matthew Brandt's celebrated series in which household cleaning products become both subject and medium, applied directly to flatbed scanners to generate luminous, otherworldly compositions. The resulting image captures Windex in the moment of its own dissolution, the fluid pooling and streaking across the scanning bed to produce fields of refracted blue light, smeared gradients, and crystalline textures that hover somewhere between landscape, abstraction, and forensic document. Brandt transforms a mundane domestic gesture into something genuinely photographic in the oldest sense, a trace of material reality fixed into image. The work carries all the hallmarks of Brandt's broader inquiry into photography's physical and chemical foundations. Rather than depicting the world through a lens, he collapses the distance between substance and representation, making the medium and the subject one and the same. This editioned multiple, measuring approximately 30 by 29 centimeters and presented in a compact depth that speaks to its object quality, is signed by the artist and offered through the Aperture Foundation Benefit Auction, lending it particular provenance within the photography world's most respected institutional context. Collectors drawn to conceptually rigorous work that remains visually seductive will find in Windex Scan 027 a quietly radical object, one that reframes the everyday as a site of genuine pictorial discovery.

Medium
Editioned multiple
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Matthew Brandt, Windex Scan 027, 2013

Windex Scan 027 presents a startlingly intimate encounter with the act of looking itself. Produced in 2013, the work belongs to Matthew Brandt's celebrated series in which household cleaning products become both subject and medium, applied directly to flatbed scanners to generate luminous, otherworldly compositions. The resulting image captures Windex in the moment of its own dissolution, the fluid pooling and streaking across the scanning bed to produce fields of refracted blue light, smeared gradients, and crystalline textures that hover somewhere between landscape, abstraction, and forensic document. Brandt transforms a mundane domestic gesture into something genuinely photographic in the oldest sense, a trace of material reality fixed into image. The work carries all the hallmarks of Brandt's broader inquiry into photography's physical and chemical foundations. Rather than depicting the world through a lens, he collapses the distance between substance and representation, making the medium and the subject one and the same. This editioned multiple, measuring approximately 30 by 29 centimeters and presented in a compact depth that speaks to its object quality, is signed by the artist and offered through the Aperture Foundation Benefit Auction, lending it particular provenance within the photography world's most respected institutional context. Collectors drawn to conceptually rigorous work that remains visually seductive will find in Windex Scan 027 a quietly radical object, one that reframes the everyday as a site of genuine pictorial discovery.

Medium
Editioned multiple
Dimensions
overall: 30.5 x 29.2 x 4.4 cm
Year
2013
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Aperture Foundation Benefit Auction

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