Working from a previous study of abstracted halftone patterns from figurative paintings, this project applied the logic to a geometrical transformation of the image, intending to act as if they had been folded and placed into a corner. Interacting within that corner, the plane bends and distorts in order to engage the formal properties it is presented with.
Studies of Franz Xaver Winterhalter's "Portrait of Leonilla, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn", 1843
Cropped selections of abstractions from "Portrait of Leonilla" with curated misregistrations
Located in the physical space of the building's actual corner, the image itself becomes something of an abstracted abstraction. This process destabilizes the relationship one holds with the corner and calls into question the pertinence and certainty of a seemingly straightforward reading.
Photographs of the installation in situ