Karin Christen

Tecnica: Stamp printing with pigments on canvas, embroidered with blue wool

Anno: 2024

Dimensione: 125 x 75 cm

Descrizione: A black-and-white photograph of my parents in 1959 at a café in Paris. The photo is slightly overexposed; the man and woman are looking directly into the camera, the sun making them squint. There is something unspoken between them; despite their closeness, there is a distance, something left unsaid, something hidden. Several images were created using pigments and stamp prints. The blue wool thread was added later, as a symbol of their years of silence. It is a room installation: suspended in the middle of the room, visible from the front and back. Two sides