“Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it” – Jasper Johns. I’m hugely influenced by dada and neo-dada. In this photography project, I explore a peculiar combination of photography, painting & collage. I create three-dimensional collages with found objects, food, and cheaply printed old paintings. I turn pre-existing works of art into Duchampian ready-mades and take photographs of them. I use strong shadows, layering, crumpling, and folding effects to give a three-dimensional sense in the final work. I reduce the details and forms of a painting by covering objects, food. Copies of old masters’ paintings initially evoke viewers’ memory. By using unexpected juxtapositions of objects, I try to create ambiguity and pull viewers’ attention deeper to my photographs. In many ways, I examine new types of still life.
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