Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Nadine Alexeev
Rio De Janeiro
Painting
Filter 2: Rio De Janeiro
“Rio de Janeiro continues the Filtered Series as one of the most culturally recognisable filters on Instagram. Choosing a filter is choosing to feed on the internet's collective appetite, choosing a flavour for how you want to be seen and accepted. A simple sunset toned gradient, a face which continues to gaze intensely back at you. I'm looking at you, please look at me.”
Work by
Nadine Alexeev
Contemporary Artist & Painter
“The self does not split cleanly; it replicates with the quiet distortion of each iteration. What remains of the original is only the ghost of a signal, flickering beneath a version that has already...” [More]
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