Cristina Schek
The Dot Society I, The Chairwoman, 2025
Archival Pigment Print
Image Size:
42 x 29.7 cm
16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.
Mounted Size:
51 x 41 cm
20 x 16 1/4 in.
42 x 29.7 cm
16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.
Mounted Size:
51 x 41 cm
20 x 16 1/4 in.
Edition of 5 plus 3 artist's proofs (AP 1/3)
In Surreal Codes: The Dot Society, Cristina Schek tips her hat to Art Deco elegance and the cool precision of Tamara de Lempicka, while slipping into pure Surrealist territory. There...
In Surreal Codes: The Dot Society, Cristina Schek tips her hat to Art Deco elegance and the cool precision of Tamara de Lempicka, while slipping into pure Surrealist territory. There is a touch of Magritte in the withheld gaze, a whisper of Dalí in the stylised silhouette. Art history, reimagined. Faces blur. Identity turns into pattern. The dot becomes a code.
“When I was a child, my father built a Morse code machine for my brother and me. Listening, playing, as he taught us, we heard sound becoming signal, signal becoming meaning. The Dot Society series begins in that memory. It begins with sound. Transmission made portrait.” Cristina Schek
“When I was a child, my father built a Morse code machine for my brother and me. Listening, playing, as he taught us, we heard sound becoming signal, signal becoming meaning. The Dot Society series begins in that memory. It begins with sound. Transmission made portrait.” Cristina Schek
Courtesy of Cynthia Corbett Gallery
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