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Text by Marie-Anne Letarte

The themes of memory and time are at the heart of his approach. Using photos taken in everyday life as raw material, he reduces the number of their pixels with the help of software: the images thus degraded testify to the process of decomposition of memory, of its fundamental impermanence.

Using a fine pen, Stebbins then reproduces these images on canvas, dividing them into a multitude of small squares that evoke the division of time into days, hours, minutes and seconds. Through this meticulous work, the artist reinvents the visual codes of digital language and …