{"id":674925,"date":"2026-07-05T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674925\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:24:24","slug":"the-weekend-with-rene-matic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674925\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend With Rene Mati\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"3w4h4\">The youngest Turner Prize nominee to date, artist Rene Mati\u0107\u2019s work spans photography, film and sculpture, often weaving through themes of identity, nationality and belonging, as well as feminism and queerness. The artist has just been awarded the Deutsche B\u00f6rse Photography Foundation Prize for their project As Opposed to The Truth \u2013 a powerful, layered portrait of London life, exploring how bodies and identities are shaped by the contemporary political landscape. But that\u2019s not all! Rene has recently unveiled their new sculpture Heard in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/exhibitions\/the-music-is-black-a-british-story\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Music Is Black<\/a>, London\u2019s V&amp;A East\u2019s debut exhibition.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9hons\">Here, Rene chats to us about Jacqueline Springer\u2019s curation of the new show and why they would recommend paying the galleries inaugural exhibition a visit, before we dive into some of their current picks \u2013 from top reads to love stories through a Black lesbian lens and home-cooked Caribbean eats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The youngest Turner Prize nominee to date, artist Rene Mati\u0107\u2019s work spans photography, film and sculpture, often weaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}