Archeology of Images

Archeology of Images

The work employs photography in conjunction with engraving to enact an anti-aesthetic transformation of the image, emphasizing its manipulative characteristics.

This is achieved through a deliberate and aggressive technique of scratching, akin to dry-point drawing, onto the metal plate containing the photograph. While the images are transferred, the process yields a contrasting effect: it simultaneously destructs them, leaving behind ghostly and fragmented remnants of the original image matrix.

Through the dissolution of the image, the metallic plates undergo a metamorphosis, acquiring a new essence—an act of forgetting or a deliberate distancing from the primary photograph in its archival form.