About

Anne Deleporte's multi-media practice investigates ideas around disappearance, accidents, chance encounters, and found imagery. In her ongoing PhotoFresco series, she isolates found images in newspapers. In a continued investigation of this medium, the Lightning series finds the artist working directly with a newspaper press: utilizing inked rollers and running through uncut lengths of newsprint. After being squeezed between the rollers, the paper wrinkles, bunches, and unevenly accepts ink. The artist then lays out the offcuts to zero in on interesting areas, flattening the wrinkled …