Gelatin silver print and ink on three sheets of paper
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Gaines described his Faces series as the “first time I had created a political context for the application of a system.” Each work in the series is a triptych. On the left is a photograph of a person; in the center, outlines of facial features from the photograph are transposed into blank areas within a numbered grid. In the right section, the numbered contours of the sitter’s face form a composite with those of all the previous people captured within the series. With Faces, Gaines sought to “digitize the face,” so that “critical issues in terms of representation were raised.”
Vital Signs: Artists and the Body, November 3–February 22, 2024
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