“Fabiola“, is an ongoing work by Francis Alÿs. Over the last two decades, Francis Alÿs has assembled a collection of nearly identical paintings and other reproductions of fourth-century Saint Fabiola, all based on a now-lost original painted in the nineteenth century by the French artist Jean-Jacques Henner.
“Mother and Child”, 1998 by Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey. The artists use genetically manipulated grass as a photographic medium to display the portrait.
In the portrait series »Freundefinden« by Marion Üdema, amateur partner-search photos from the internet were used as drafts for the large format pictures of the same staging with original models.
»A Sculpture for the Ahmed Family«, 2005 (detail) is part of a series that Chris Evans is making with various people around the world regarded as belonging to their counry’s ‘elite’.
“Framing Leaders” by Shahee Ilyas. “Framing Leaders” is a website consisting of algorithmically generated framed pictures of Heads of Governments based on their length in power, latest Press Freedom Index (RSF) and Corruption Perceptions Index (TI) for the country. Leaders are all about borders, power, constrains which the algorithm translates to ornaments, proportions, matting and darkness.
