Invoking touch as a sensuous metaphor for immediacy, imprint and impression, the exhibition considers Liljeström’s use of airbrush techniques and absent touch in the context of collective memory. Selected and then rendered from the artist’s digital archive of source material – as varied as cropped movie stills and screengrabs of scarcely watched YouTube clips – the evanescent, monochromatic …
Invoking touch as a sensuous metaphor for immediacy, imprint and impression, the exhibition considers Liljeström’s use of airbrush techniques and absent touch in the context of collective memory. Selected and then rendered from the artist’s digital archive of source material – as varied as cropped movie stills and screengrabs of scarcely watched YouTube clips – the evanescent, monochromatic paintings behave as manifest phantasm. Each a figment of narrative, each a partial held in suspense, painting here becomes a re-mediated event that speaks of the image’s ambivalent role in anamnesis. A …
