A regular grid of dots makes up the images in this exhibition. A supposedly neutral reproduction allowed by the halftone technique.

The technology, invented in the 1880s, made it fast and cost-efficient to print images alongside text in books, magazines and newspapers. It ushered in the era of mass reproduction of images in a time when the production, distribution, and understanding of images were changing. And they still are.

Patterns, symbols, and subtle gestures that the unconscious mind understands and interprets – echo the optical illusion of the halftone, that makes the dots appear like soft graduations to the human eye.

Vague gestures of computer generated hands alongside photographs of real hands. Interlacing and merging, the images form collaborations between several unknown and invisible sources.

Rebecca Krasnik is an artist working with an investigative approach to images and a quest for the experience of time embedded in them. Originally from Copenhagen, Rebecca Krasnik holds an MFA in Photography and Related Media from School of Visual Arts in New York City, USA and a BA (Hons) in Photographic Arts from University of Westminster in London, UK.

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