The Christopher Cutts Gallery is excited to announce our upcoming exhibition, Matthew Carver’s “Hyperstition.”
This exhibition will feature several new paintings and 100 mixed-media panels created by the artist for his graphic novel Koi Cafe Time Slip, which will be released when this exhibition opens on Saturday, February 1st, 2025.
“Hyperstition” allows viewers to walk through the narrative that Carver has spent years developing and illustrating. This is a rare opportunity to acquire the original illustrations that comprise the novel.
Hyperstition is the idea that imagination and belief are active forces, where fictional or speculative narratives can shape and even create their own reality. It’s a feedback loop in which the line between fiction and fact blurs, with stories and myths influencing the world in unexpected, often unsettling ways. Blending science fiction, conspiracy, and philosophy, hyperstition shows that the narratives we tell are not just reflections of the present, but forces shaping the future.
Join us for the opening reception and graphic novel launch on Saturday, February 1st, from 2 – 6 pm.
The artist will be in attendance, and first-edition prints of his graphic novel, Koi Cafe Time Slip, will be available for purchase and signing.
This exhibition will run from February 1st — February 22nd, 2025.
“Hyperstition can save you.” — Alice, in Koi Cafe Time Slip
ABOUT KOI CAFE TIME SLIP
A small group of friends gather in a coffee shop set within an alternative, cyberpunk Toronto to take stock of recent adventures that were meant to save the life of John Lennon and help coax Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” into existence. In the short span of 60 pages, we are introduced to a world of possible time travel, AI, and alternate realities. Despite its seemingly light, pulpy tone, the story subtly references a range of influential and often controversial cultural figures and theorists – such as the Riot grrrl movement, Andrea Dworkin, Carol Adams, Sigmund Freud, Edward Said, Al-Khwarazmi, Nick Land, and the CCRU.
