A dreamt universe imbued with absurdity and thriving with zoomorphic characters, aware of the narrative structures of folkloric tales of the past but also of the most up-to-date language codes. This is the area in which Matt Copson’s work dwells, intended by the artist as a very personal bestiary, an exploded saga, potentially endless, which sees the re-proposal of recurring story figures and schemes. Among these, the character of Reynard sticks out: a fox which on one hand recalls the archetypes of a folkloric tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, on the other hand is able each and every time to free itself of pre-established mechanisms and promote an always fresh flow of thoughts, images, actions. This dynamic is expressed mainly through laser projections, evolutions of previous animations, which establish the exhibition space as theater, and are intended by the artist more as sculptures than as video works. This distorting of space within time becomes the form of evocative and shattered stories, fragments of a world in constant change. The work Down Boy (2019), exhibited in the 58th October Salon, is an example of this expressive style: the laser projection shows a fox in the corner of a room, caught while interacting with its own reflected image, between contrasting impulses of aggression and attraction.