[2010]
Sketches for a series of digital collages from analog photograms (Lambda prints, 16x16" / 40.6x40.6cm)
This project was commissioned for and presented at the Qui Vive? 2nd Moscow International Biennial for Young Art in July 2010 as part of the Salt group show.
AWARDS
The Salt show, curated by Anna Buyvid, was shortlisted for the Sergey Kuryokhin Award as the Best Curated Project of 2010.
Sergey Kuryokhin Centre is an independent foundation based in St. Petersburg and dedicated to promoting innovation in the arts in Russia.
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The series plays on the expression, originally Latin, “to take something with a grain of salt”. Every day we have to process vast amounts of information whose validity we lack the means to ascertain beyond reasonable doubt. In our quest for truth we have to devise subjective strategies of sceptical consumption and eat salt not just by the grain but by the mouthful. (It can also be said that the Russian figurative meaning of “salt” as essence of something is what’s left after applying the Latin/English meaning)
We end up collecting disparate residual bits of information, and if they are mapped out visually, a rather random and absurdist terrain reveals itself.
These digital collages have been made from analog photograms of newspaper sheets and Himalayan rock salt. Each collage only uses elements found on one sheet - a sheet here being an object with both sides, to emphasize ironic and incongruent juxtapositions.