Peggy and her people (2001), cut out photographs , variable dimensions
Peggy and her people (2001), cut out photographs , variable dimensions
Peggy and her people_2001, variable dimensions, cut out photographs
Doris crying (detail of Paggy and her people)_2001, 120x180, cut-out photograh
Tia Pochola and Annie talking_2001, 120x184,5 cm, cut out photograph
Nonna Laura_2001, 70x110 cm, cut out photograph
Lala and Zoo_2001, 120x180 cm, cut-out photograph
Ingaborg_2001, 60x40 cm, cut out photographs
Dennis running and Tia Charo and the children_2001, 120x180 cm, cut-out photograph
Finely cutout portraits of a family surround a ghostly figure in a conjuring or scéance-like scenario. The central figure, the artist’s great grandmother, floats queen-like in the centre of the room while the surrounding portraits create a horizon around her and mark the edges of memory.
As with all Cardelús photo-based work, family snapshots are reworked materially in order to pierce their opaque and inaccessible surfaces to release and share the intensity of subjectivity experience.