Private Stages - Collages

installationview, Gallery 44 - Projectroom, Toronto, 2005

The Collages of "Private Stages" take amateur photographs of nudes from the Internet and undermine the original intention of the images through a simple process of interference.

The main subject – the nude – is obscured with the application of little "dots" that are made with punchhole irons using the colours and structures from the original image. The process of manipulation remains visible on the image plane with dots and circles forming a recog-nizable silhouette of the vanished nude. Through this "low tech" retouching process, the former pinup-photo becomes a simple interior. The background space of the image – previously unimportant – becomes the main subject of the image.

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