couverture
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linogravure, 2013, 49.5 x 69.5 cm
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linogravure, 2013, 49.5 x 69.5 cm
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linogravure, 2013, 49.5 x 69.5 cm
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linogravure, 2013, 49.5 x 69.5 cm

Description of the process

 

My printmaking approach consists in recovering existing images, which come from control and surveillance procedures.
The decorations ornamenting these official documents are always abstract, geometrical, and very close to a pictorial tradition of concrete art.
I decided to track down these «authoritarian» abstractions, to reproduce them in the same way as a forger.
Motorway sticker, transport tickets, RFID tags, classification visual schemes from army or police, security printing patterns, «guilloche» from passports, are some of the subjects I turned away.
My printmaking production is a hybrid, not totally emptied of its oppressive content, not smooth enough to be just an aesthetic object.

 

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