Ilias Sipsas - Homo Negans
My artistic practice derives directly from darkroom process, as an act of exploration of the photographic surface and the analog structure of the photographic medium.
The functional parameters of photography that alternates from the state of visible to the state of invisible and then to visible again becomes the main axis that generates multi-possible and unexpected transformations.
Homo Negans is the name of a broader group of collages and decollages made from black and white negatives of various film formats. Mostly portraits, all found material, have been decomposed and rearranged in order to disturb the photographic event on its “matrix”.
To de-identify the subject by “violating” the existence of evidence, leaving a pure dialogue among postures, textures, light and space.