girl_w/_pearl_earring, 2022/2024

From FACES
Two digital pigment prints on Hahnemühle 300g rag paper, hand-torn, each 60 x 50 cm. Edition of 45 + 8 AP, signed on label verso of the first work, numbered on each print.

Diptych EUR 2,000

This edition by Cory Arcangel borrows from an image of the painting by Johannes Vermeer from 1665. Employing a technique referred to as "deep frying", Cory Arcangel has written code to recursively tweak an image using common image manipulation techniques such as compression, re-sizing, and modulation. Arcangel's manipulation of the original source material ultimately reaches a transformational breaking point surfacing new representational possibilities at the intersection of figuration and abstraction. The resulting works are thus a very contemporary interpretation of Vermeer's famous painting, with the two images representing different stages of the distortion process.