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Dodi Reifenberg’s images are made from layers of plastic bag snippets generating a relief-like
depth that is atypical for flat imagery. The colors are not mixed by the artist himself; they rather
emerge by cutting up commercial plastic bags and composing images from these snippets. With a
technique perfectly appropriating the polyethylene material he uses, the artist re-codes a byproduct
of the global marketing industry into metaphorical information about us and our time.
However, the snippet-made images cannot be categorized as collages. While a collage shapes a
new whole by assembling individual …