Ibrahim Azab takes over our Instagram account for the week sharing his series, FOPDTMM, which reveals a process and failure of experience through the photographic object, sound, and information.
Ibrahim Azab constructs collages made from magazine cut-outs and the artists’ personal imagery, highlighting the process of reproducing memory and material. Through digital and physical interventions of adding and removing material, Azab uses the mechanical and the manual as a means of producing a work of art. The body of work explores the perception of information and visual memory to form an understating of the sub-conscious challenging in photographic representations.
For W. Benjamin the work of art encompasses this process quite literally. Through the mechanical processes of photography ‘such as enlargement or slow motion’ or rather in this case Photoshop and collaging, the image can escape its authentic or original position and becomes something further than the physical, mirroring how the subconscious seamlessly performs this process with our own memories.
Through this playful investigation, the artist attempts to de-materialise the surrounding world through everyday consumer images but significantly forms a visceral material that becomes a vessel of re-appropriated experiences, memories, and photographs.
