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Modification Notice: The seller last modified this listing Fri, 01/15/10 @ 11:06:21 AM EST.
Description
Archival Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Rag Paper, signed, dated and numbered "1/10" on the reverse.
Estimate
500 - 1000
Provenance
Directly from the artist.
Measurements
21 x 14" image on 20 x 24" paper.
Condition
Artwork is in excellent condition.
Statement: Lost Faces is a project reminiscing the importance of a photograph. This project is both a visual research of personal family roots and a search for lost photographs where strangers have become orphaned through images.
In my search for old photographs, treasure hunting in flea markets, yard sales and rummaging through closets and dusty family albums, the process became a melancholic and complex one that raised many questions. How do memories get packed up and put away? Why are they ignored? Who gave them up? How do portraits become unmarked, unnamed, given away and forgotten? Their smiles and sorrows are lost to a time that is unknown. The old photographs contain a haunting and absolute eerie presence. Visual memories that have escaped, discarded images that have become ghosted orphans.
These recreated and reinterpreted images do not claim to answer these questions but is a means to explore and resurrect the moments captured in these found photographs, appreciating the personal history of each one and reclaiming a personal identity of the lost faces in the photographs used.
Aislinn Leggett was born in Namur, QC in 1981 and currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada. She was a grant recipient from Conseils des arts et lettres du Quebec in 2008 for her project Lost Faces. That same year, she was featured in Applied Arts Magazine’s emerging artist Young Blood showcase. Her first solo show, Eight Seconds, The Quebec Rodeos was exhibited at various galleries throughout Quebec in 2008 and her work has been published in The Morning News, Burn Magazine, Urbania, among others. Recently, her work was nominated in the fine art category at the New York Photo Festival 2009 and she participated in the group exhibit Likeness for the Ottawa Karsh Festival 2009. In 2010, she will be showing in a group exhibition at Gallery 44 Center for Contemporary Photography in Toronto.
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