Jan 9, 2014
Amie Dicke
'X-173-Key'
Based in Amsterdam, Ameie dicke takes sandpaper to photographic portraits, scraping away the information-dense surface and leaving rough, white, rubbed-raw voids. The abrasions are partial, selective, akin to editing or erasure. Faces go missing, but hair and clothing typically remain. Some areas look like they have been clawed by fine needles; others are more aggressively canceled, the paper scrubbed all the way through, leaving small holes.
The destruction is generative, yielding works that are at once haunting apparitions, censored documents, performative, material traces.
