artwork

After spending several months reconstructing my family’s photographic archive, I sought to materialize the tensions between presence and absence in the reconstruction of my own genealogy. I turned each photo I could find into a negative and then developed them through a process of extreme solarization. The single-channel video (27’47”) shown in the piece is a documentation of this process, which I project over a developing tray filled with water while reading biographical data about each person. This process resulted in 18 silver gelatin prints, semi-obscure portraits where faint, blurry faces appear upon closer inspection.