Installation view I Quando scoppia la pace, Centriennale Vittorio Veneto 2018 curated by Dimitri Ozerkov Installation view II @Kunstraum Nestroyhof, BITRAYAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Foto Wien 2019
SURFACE STUDIES began as my contribution to the Centenary of Vittorio Veneto which commemorates the ceasefire of WWI in the historical town by commissioning artworks from one artist of each country involved in the war.
In the site-specific installation I investigate the vulnerability and recovery of the human skin through photographic material. In a post-production process, I mend human surfaces that have been injured or violated by applying digital tools such as the “healing brush” and “recovery tool” as healing methods. The large scale textile prints of collaged human skin relate individual history to historical events, yet without the shape of a body they feel alien.
I hope to provoke questions on what it means to heal something and to move forward from acts of violence in our personal lives and in societies and the environment, and also to expand the possibilities to do so by entering the digital realm. All artworks in the Centenary will remain installed for a hundred years.
In the second development I bring the vulnerability of the digital image together with an alienated human intimacy, focusing on the quality of a touch. The perfectly constructed image is faded out for the b-side of the image to surface, its construction masks and digital retouching traces forming post-digital drawings.
Installation view I Quando scoppia la pace, Centriennale Vittorio Veneto 2018 curated by Dimitri Ozerkov Installation view II @Kunstraum Nestroyhof, BITRAYAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Foto Wien 2019