MEMORIES OF GRANNY
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This work is an extension of my work in photography and experimentation.
"Like
hallucinations splashed onto paper, the pictures of Guyanese born
artist Kwesi Abbensetts seem to abide by no photographic convention,
utilizing layered exposures, desaturated hues, and cubist fragmentations
to create portraits that seem more like paintings, at times.
Abbensetts
creates "works exploring his own identity and blackness, through an
approach he dubs "revisionary self-appropriation."
Though it
sounds heady, Abbensetts approach is something of an antithesis to
academia and formalized art conventions. The self-taught artist aims to
be intuitive rather than overly calculated in his approach. "My work is
not based on any particular conceptual notion or any sort of research or
historical sorts of representations," he tells. "It's just based on the
idea that I intuitively work with whatever information I have."
"In
the sense of it being revisionary self-appropriation, it's just related
to the fact that my work is not directly using any sort of contemporary
art as a reference," he adds. "I'm just looking to create something
fresh and new in my own mind, using just the tools I have: photography
and painting."
Abbensetts process relies on waiting, spontaneous
inspiration and feelings placing trust in randomness, moments and
happenstance instead of trained formalities of art making and practice.
Enjoy
Printed on
KODAK PROFESSIONAL ENDURA Paper
This paper provides natural skin tones with warm highlights along with rich, bright color. It is designed to offer a dye stability of about 100 years in home display, about 200 years in home storage.