Opening Reception Sunday September 28th 4-6 PM
“Anne Deleporte’s work converts a simple image into a symbol for the nightmare of state control that we find ourselves increasingly diminished by ”
Dena Shottenkirk
Anne Deleporte (b. 1960, Corsica, France) is a New York and Paris based multimedia artist who has always been fascinated with the phenomena of disappearance. True to Deleporte’s signature practice of covering up to reveal, her work engages themes of identity and enigma. With ID stacks, her casual approach to photography focuses on the peripheral nature of identity. Using her collection of maimed photographs, cut out for official documents, Deleporte’s ID Stacks ultimately allow the viewer to collapse a plethora of first person stories into a small bust-like object. In what were once photomaton portraits, the usual markers that define a person are gone. What remains are fragments of biometrics stripped of their identifying power.