The intentional glitchiness of the photography of Federico Ferrari is at once familiar and surprising. This series appears to be still life photography interrupted by a scanner malfunction. A section of each image is dragged across the plane reducing it to simple lines of color. Small pieces of photographs are severely exaggerated in size. It abstracts otherwise benign photographs and plays with the viewer’s perception of a simple scene scene.
Something is not quite right with Nandan Ghiya‘s portraits. Indeed, several are titled Download Error. Ghiya’s antique portraits of upper class men and women from the past seem to be physical manifestations of garbled JPEG files. Each portrait is collaged and each frame carefully modified in a ways that resemble corrupted digital photographs. The now forgotten subjects of these portraits may have sought posterity through these images and the artist seems to communicate this in a familiar visual language of the digital. He uses life documented through JPEG’s, glitches, and error messages to reflect the modern plastic identity.
Is this glitchy goodness by Pam et Jenny, created by scanning graphic and photographic images, a new method of collage? Enjoy a selection of images from this Brussels based art and design practice.
