Cut-It-Out

Cut-It-Out investigates historic application and use of vintage photographs. Through the creation of large scale digital 111cm x 290cm prints, hundreds of vintage photographs found in thrift stores and antique shops, as well as personal snapshots, metaphorically become historical evidence of our own lost identity. Social historian Judith Gutman expressed that “photographs may be our most perfect cultural artifact.” We are interested in this notion of artifact/evidence not as a means of looking at the past, but as an expression of the present day. Seven of these pieces were created specifically for exhibition at CANDYLAND/rum för samtidig konstupplevelse, Stockholm, Sweden.