Lisa Oppenheim
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Lisa Oppenheim’s artistic practice is rooted in a research-based methodology that focuses on the intersection of images, their sources, and their contexts. Working predominantly in photography, the artist frequently references library, collection, documentary, and online archives as resources for her projects that are marked by both their conceptual and aesthetic complexity. Visually, her images embrace fragmentation, exposures, substitutions, and other physical manipulations that reveal the nuanced mechanics and chemistry of the photographic medium, its history, and theory. Merging strategies of appropriation and recontextualization, Oppenheim reconstitutes past and present by assigning new meanings to historical imagery, records, and materials. Bound up in the expansiveness of photography’s trajectory, Oppenheim’s project consider the process, modes of consumption, and circulation of photography.
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Lisa Oppenheim’s artistic practice is rooted in a research-based methodology that focuses on the intersection of images, their sources, and their contexts. Working predominantly in photography, the artist frequently references library, collection, documentary, and online archives as resources for her projects that are marked by both their conceptual and aesthetic complexity. Visually, her images embrace fragmentation, exposures, substitutions, and other physical manipulations that reveal the nuanced mechanics and chemistry of the photographic medium, its history, and theory. Merging strategies of appropriation and recontextualization, Oppenheim reconstitutes past and present by assigning new meanings to historical imagery, records, and materials. Bound up in the expansiveness of photography’s trajectory, Oppenheim’s project consider the process, modes of consumption, and circulation of photography.