Aleksandra Blazevski

Metadata Bath

Pixelated self-portraits—degraded through digital transmission—are transferred onto darkroom trays. These re-materialized fragments reclaim presence by anchoring ephemeral data within the tactile history of photographic process. Acting as both vessels and sites of erosion, the trays hold identity and visibility in a state of flux.

“Through processes of compression and transmission, digital images degrade, becoming untethered from their origins. This work reclaims such fragments by transferring them onto darkroom trays — material remnants of photographic tradition — situating digital erosion within a history of embodied image-making.”