CONSTANCE 15
In Constance 15, the collaboration between Tina Berning and Michelangelo Di Battista examines the threshold between photography and drawing. The artists merge two distinct gestures—the lens and the line—into a single act of revision. Berning’s interventions over Di Battista’s portraits replace photographic completion with a surface that remains in flux, revealing both image and trace.
The work occupies a dialogue between constructed beauty and the evidence of touch. Layers of graphite, paint, and incision alter the portrait without erasing it, transforming representation into palimpsest. What emerges is neither photograph nor illustration but an encounter with the mutable identity of the subject itself—a study in impermanence rendered through restraint and precision.
Delphine Burtin’s series Fragments (2018) extends her ongoing investigation into perception, constructed reality, and the instability of photographic truth. Working through a process that merges studio experimentation with sculptural manipulation, Burtin disassembles ordinary materials and reconfigures them into ambiguous forms. These provisional structures—made through folding, cutting, layering, or re-photographing—create images that resist immediate recognition and…
Holly Roberts’ collage practice forms a distinct lineage within contemporary American art, merging photography, painting, and cut‐paper assemblage into a language that is at once raw, psychological, and deeply intuitive. Her work often begins with photographic fragments, which she obscures or transforms through layers of paint, building figures that seem to hover between the human…
Theo Xiangyu Liu’s photographic practice examines the tension between visibility and interiority within contemporary Asian diasporic life. Working across portraiture, performance, and staged tableaux, Liu constructs images that challenge the assumption that identity must be articulated through clarity. Instead, he uses opacity, gesture, and spatial ambiguity as active tools—inviting subjects to inhabit a space where…
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