Artworks by John Stezaker.
The artist creates imaginative connections between people, nature, and architecture. A sense of nostalgia transpires, emphasised by Stezaker’s decision to overlap Sephia tone images onto black and white photos. As the artist places landscapes pictures on top of the people’s facial features, the identity of the portraits’ subjects is obfuscated by what seem to be memories of visual scenarios. We cannot transparently see the expressions, nor eyes of these men, but only imagine. While photography serves as a means to document, to then remember moments of real-life experiences, with these images, Stezaker locates us in a surrealist dimension. Here, the men’s faces are hidden by what could possibly represent instants of time that constitute their individual memory.
