Artist: Seza Paker
Date: 1981
Size: 43 x 33 cm
Technique: Photograph
Seza Paker, who lives and works between Istanbul and Paris, completed her education at the Paris Académie des Beaux-Arts and École Camondo. Paker uses a wide variety of media such as drawing, photography, audio, and video, and she also produces site-specific installations. The concept of time occupies an important place in her works, which are loaded with references to various fields like literature, cinema, philosophy, sociology, and art history.In this work, Paker uses three black and white photographs taken from her father’s archive as her starting point. The artist uses the dresses of women posing in photographs to produce enlarged and abstracted motifs, attaching these colourful drawings, along with the photographs, to the surface of the canvas. With this abstraction, the patterns break away from the phenomenal plane imposed by the archival material; they come to life, becoming timeless. The work gestures, on the one hand, to differences in the perception of documents, photographs, patterns, and pictures, as well as the sensory effect born out of the collective usage of these media; on the other, it focuses on the depth of detail produced by these colourful and numerical leitmotifs.
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