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Roger Ballen, Face-Off, 2010

Roger Ballen

Face-Off, 2010
photograph archival pigment print on hahnemuhle paper
custom frame and museum quality glass
image size 53 x 38 cm
frame size 75.6 x 60 cm
limited edition of 6
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Separated into seven chapters or "acts", The Theatre of Apparitions is a treat of Ballenesque images taking readers on a deep journey into their subconscious. Inspired by the sight of hand-drawn carvings on blacked-out windows in an abandoned women's prison,
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 Ballen started to experiment using different spray paints on glass and then 'drawing on' or removing the paint with a sharp object to let natural light through.

The results are like prehistoric cave-paintings: the black, dimensionless spaces on the glass are canvases onto which Ballen carves his thoughts and emotions. Fossil-like facial forms and dismembered body parts coexist uncomfortably with vaporous, ghost-like shadows.

Earthly and otherworldly, physical and spiritual, his work transcends all traditional concepts of photography.

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