That Nostalgia

Focusing On Experiences Of Dislocation And On The Importance Of Image And Translation, That Nostalgia Records John Mateers Travels And His Witnessing Of The Inequities And Pleasures Of Life In Many Parts Of The World, From China And Japan, South-east Asia And Trkiye, Through Portugal, And Then, Further West, To Mexico And The Usa. Central To His Poetics Is An Awareness Of The Artifice Of The Imperial, Or, As He Coins It, Empire, That Nostalgia. As The First European Power To Lose Its Global Empire, Portugal Plays A Special Role In Mateers Imagination; With Its Continuing Connections To Asia And Africa, And Its Own Cosmopolitan Life Led Among The Ruins.