Art Drag Album
"Within the project I experiment with the introduction of a secondary picture plane within the photographic frame; kitsch vintage portraits from the 60s are used to create ‘windows’ within the frame causing slippage between the illusionary foreground and background of the photograph highlighting the flatness, and thus the artificiality, of the photographic object." Nigel Grimmer
Within the project I experiment with the introduction of a secondary picture plane within the photographic frame; kitsch vintage portraits from the 60s are used to create ‘windows’ within the frame causing slippage between the illusionary foreground and background of the photograph highlighting the flatness, and thus the artificiality, of the photographic object.
Much of the history of photography is based on a male quest for an exotic other, and these kitsch portraits of strangely hued women reference this ‘otherness’. However, here I transform these exotic beauties into something jarringly common; now they walk the street in sportswear or pyjamas.
Much of the history of photography is based on a male quest for an exotic other, and these kitsch portraits of strangely hued women reference this ‘otherness’. However, here I transform these exotic beauties into something jarringly common; now they walk the street in sportswear or pyjamas.