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Sarah Nind Artist Statement paysages fragiles This exhibition attempts to question how what we see and perceive is affected by the histories and images that live in our conscious and unconscious memories. Time and physical being are explored by Sarah Nind in paysages fragiles through a personal inventory of collected imagery, including images of environmental destruction from the artist's birth place in South-East Asia. The artist uses photographs, developed on a photo-sensitized mylar sheet (ortholith film), and painted with oil paints. "I am breathing life into these images - I am giving back memories of time and place the aura and mystery that has been lost in the memory," says the artist. She continues to describe how her desire to paint her photographs "is actually a desire to authenticate or make unique a world that is fragmented and overexposed in the photographic image." Her manipulation of the original images from Sarah's archive of photographs allow her to reinterpret and distance herself from the personal, and "open the work to the viewer for a unique authoring of the trace with which individual identity is defined."
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