Christian Marclay: Photographs, 2020

In a series of photographs showing screaming faces, cut and torn fragments from comic books, movie stills, and images found on the internet are arranged into haunting, mask-like composites, and then recorded by the camera. Capturing the paper’s inherent creases and tears, the photographs mix analog and digital elements, and investigate the computer screen as a contemporary physical surface.

A framed collage of comic strips and creased paper, showing a screaming man
A framed collage of a crumpled black sheet, with a black and white image of a screaming mouth in the center.
A framed color photograph of screaming faces from a comic book, torn out and lit on fire on the grass, surrounded by leaves.
A framed color photograph of a screaming face from a comic book, torn out and lit on fire on the grass, surrounded by leaves.
A framed collage of crumpled comic book images, with a screaming mouth at the center
A framed collage made from comic book images, of a person screaming with concentric circles around their open mouth.
A framed collage of comic book images, with a small face at the center, and long black strips radiating out of it.
A framed collage of crumpled pages from comic books, with a torn screaming face at the center.
A framed collage of a blue screaming face, with comic book images glued on top.
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