
Vartan Avakian
Suspended Silver 026, 2015
Archival pigment print on fine art paper
60 x 80 cm
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
Suspended Silver is a series of photographs made from silver particles extracted from film debris found in the dust. By printing each silver particle—the material equivalent, one might say, of...
Suspended Silver is a series of photographs made from silver particles extracted from film debris found in the dust. By printing each silver particle—the material equivalent, one might say, of a pixel—the physical components that produced the original photographs found in the Barakat Building are reshaped into images or opaque artifacts that carry the physical traces and composition of information of the initial objects just as it renders them remote and cryptic.
The second is a photographic series made from silver particles collected from film debris found in the dust. Silver forms the light-sensitive crystals on which images are formed in film stock. By printing each silver particle—the material equivalent, one might say, of a pixel—the composition of information that produced the original photographs are reshaped into opaque artifacts that bare the physical traces of the original photographs just as it renders them remote and cryptic.
The second is a photographic series made from silver particles collected from film debris found in the dust. Silver forms the light-sensitive crystals on which images are formed in film stock. By printing each silver particle—the material equivalent, one might say, of a pixel—the composition of information that produced the original photographs are reshaped into opaque artifacts that bare the physical traces of the original photographs just as it renders them remote and cryptic.
Exhibitions
Collapsing Clouds of Gas and Dust solo exhibition at Marfa' 2015Courtesy of Marfa’ Projects
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