SARA CWYNAR

Tracy (Pantyhose), 2017
Sara Cwynar is inspired by the aesthetics of antiquated studio photography and the unnatural cleanliness of contemporary commercial imagery. Her practice exists at the juncture of old and new, analog and digital, nostalgia and futurism. Cwynar creates assemblages from found objects and pictures; she then photographs the assemblages and reproduces the images as c-prints. In her own words, she takes these found elements “out of the shared image world and into a space for personal, often very obsessive intervention.” Although Photoshop plays a role in the final work, nearly every stage of Cwynar’s process takes place in pre-production. The artist’s still-life images are highly manipulated while maintaining references to reality, foregrounding the artist’s interest in photography’s power to deceive.
Canadian, b. 1985, Toronto, Canada, based in Brooklyn, New York
Sara Cwynar的灵感来自古老的摄影与当代商业影像的自然纯粹的美学，她于旧与新、类比与数字化、怀旧与未来主义不断实践，利用物体和图片的组合，以及后期图像和图像的组合来进行创作。一种未来与古旧的交替感时常出现在她的作品中。