mélange: Unison Gallery at Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY
Robert Capozzi’s mélange is an art installation of photographic-based work that suggests notions of privacy, protection and alienation. Derived from various lens-based image-making methods, the exhibition merges the results of various types of digital and analog media.
Often using obsolete film cameras and low-end image scanners to capture his subject, the imposed limitations become a challenge that adds a poetic unknown to the process. A faith in film as an intermediary adds mystery in the making process, vastly unknown in a convenient, rapid-fire digital era. Capozzi affirms, “such with life, flaws are often apparent but hover merely at the surface.”
Both stark and subtle, mélange employs elements including archival digital prints to “Frankensteined” electronics including LCD displays and cast off television sets. The result is a quasi-interactive record of light, shadow and reflection.
“Everyone carries a shadow,” Jung wrote, “and the less it is embodied
in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.”
more information at: http://www.capozziphotographic.com/
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