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Untitled

by Isabelle De Kleine

Residency prize winner, Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2015
Single channel HD video

Untitled Isabelle De Kleine, b. 1994, Victoria
Video: 5:07

Untitled is a portrait of Curtis Edwards, who has the autoimmune disease, alopecia. The work intends to explore an emotive state of being overwhelmed and consumed by societal expectations, pushing the subject into a state of deep introversion and isolation. Untitled intends to visualise an alternative ‘reality’ driven by a glitched, warped and fragmented understanding of what one sees. The portrait has been heavily rendered in post-production, using auto generator tools to slow down footage, masking layers and forming a strange pulse. This creates a surreal visualisation of the subject, touching on notions of glitch and something beyond human.

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