Fugitive pigment

A project that explores the concept of ephemerality vs permanence in art forms due to human intervention.

Street graffiti is an art form that will eventually vanish due to the artists themselves. Intrigued by this given, the artist starts questioning the aspect of art production within the context of ephemerality and explores the idea of artistic intervention. As a result, she inverts the constant of street graffiti and photographs the later to recreate digital artworks rendering them permanence.

The work process focuses on the idea of appropriation of the subject and artistic distortion as a mean of creation.

After spotting freshly sprayed graffiti, the artist selects their most compelling segments, in regard to wall texture, motive, and color, and photographs them. Sorted out, the pictures are divided into color suited groups. The images are then merged by fragments, cut out, reassembled until creating a single new piece of art; the white fragments shouldn’t be considered a background but an integrant part of the image.

2018

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Series of 32 photographs

66 x 66 cm - Edition of 5 + 2AP // 150 x 150 cm - Edition of 2 + 2AP