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Encounters within Fiction – Benjamin Sachs and Peter Aaron
16" x 21"
Archival Ink Jet
2010
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Artist Statement
In my art practice I manipulate images to obscure the difference between documentation and fiction. The evidence of its own inaccuracy is usually integrated in all of my work, and the result is obviously constructed pieces that appear both awkward and familiar.
In one project I use fiction writing as a starting point when I grapple with modes of perception and identification. The portraits I create are inventive visualizations of existing characters from novels. This idea of creating photographs of people that do not exist, is perhaps best exemplified in my newspaper, The Unwritten Quarterly. Here, I am not only playing with the idea of fiction being as alive as anything else, I also argue that there are no such thing as individual authorship. In the newspaper, the fictional Mara Thompson claims in a New York Times article, that “Ida Rödén, strictly speaking, does not exist. She is several, is many, she is a profusion of selves. She splits herself into dozens of characters who recurrently contradict each other and even themselves. In doing so, she removes herself from her own persona. In the process she may lose herself, but what she really gains is the possibility of becoming anyone.”
Contact
ida@idaroden.com
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