Alexa Karabin
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View from diaspora Still from Landscape Animation
View from diaspora Still from Landscape Animation
View from diaspora Still from Landscape Animation
View from diaspora Still from Landscape Animation
View from diaspora Still from Landscape Animation
View from diaspora Still from Landscape Animation
View from diaspora detail
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The landscapes in my current work extend on this theme through the representation of the cyclical nature of genocide and war. I am interested in how historically these themes are repeated through time and across cultures. Each landscape in this body of work is a fragment of a photograph documenting atrocity in war. I crop the original photograph, removing all bodies and all identifiable objects. The images are obscured, distorted and focused solely on the landscape, which is then enlarged, and moved through several media; the images originate pixilated from the internet, are printed, and then fused together, scanned, and then re-printed on Kitakata paper. The final result is a continual cyclical landscape with no beginning, or end. Artist books, video, and wall installations are included in this body of work.
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