Each of the portraits of Woven Portraits by Brooklyn-based artist David Samuel Stern is the result of physically weaving together two photographic prints of the same sitter.
They are an attempt to bridge dignified, direct portraits with a sort of abstraction that allows their subjects to hide within themselves, and the photographs to be distinctly physical objects. In hiding some things, we reveal others.
“This approach allows for texture and nuances in the way the images overlay, which highlight the fact that they are objects. Photographs are not usually thought as objects, in most cases they’re more like windows that we look through”.
Through these composite works, Stern “make portraits that find a way around the ‘declarative once-and-for-all’ within photographic portraits”.
Images courtesy of David Samuel Stern
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