Curtis Mann
In the MODIFICATIONS series, found photographs of unfamiliar and conflicted places throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa are subjected to a process of selection and erasure. By simply painting on enlarged color photographs with clear acrylic and then bleaching the image, new and abstract meanings are created from these family snapshots, travel photographs, and casual documentations. Thus, the photograph is physically and contextually altered; as a result, the work has the ability to oscillate between image and object, photography and painting, real and imagined.
I am constantly trying to force the medium to function outside of its initial utility and use its malleable nature as a way of coming to an ulterior understanding of the complex and the unfamiliar. This new reading attempts to shift and expand the limits on how we perceive and understand the fragmented world in which the photograph attempts to represent.
Curtis Mann
I am constantly trying to force the medium to function outside of its initial utility and use its malleable nature as a way of coming to an ulterior understanding of the complex and the unfamiliar. This new reading attempts to shift and expand the limits on how we perceive and understand the fragmented world in which the photograph attempts to represent.
Curtis Mann
Image:
Curtis Mann, Landlocked, Checkpoint (unknown and Palestine) (dyptich)
51 x 70 cm + 51 x 71 cm
clear acrylic varnish and graphite on bleached found photographs
Curtis Mann, Landlocked, Checkpoint (unknown and Palestine) (dyptich)
51 x 70 cm + 51 x 71 cm
clear acrylic varnish and graphite on bleached found photographs
Courtesy of Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerpen
Kusseneers Gallery
11 De Burburestraat
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium
+32 32572400
Kusseneers Gallery
11 De Burburestraat
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium
+32 32572400
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