Vartan Avakian
Suspended Silver 006 , 2015
Archival pigment print on fine art paper
63 x 83 cm (framed)
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
Copyright The Artist
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...
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.