Caragh Savage

Caragh Savage ‘Henriette: Quiet Memory’ 2017: charcoal on paper

Taking the portrait as a starting point for my research, I have been looking at the transition between, or dissolution of, subject to object – in particular, the point at which the two converge. I have been investigating the idea of the documented face, the collected face, face as specimen and face as artefact, examining the degrees of difference between identification and identity.

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