Day 1, Wednesday, 2014

Day 1, Wednesday, 2014

Sigrid Viir
Estonia, b. 1979
Ink-jet prints
© Sigrid Viir

Sigrid Viir produced this diptych for a solo exhibition in which she performed the act of creating a body of work. Twelve pairs of photographs represented the duration of the exhibition, with accent colors (pink, in the case of Day 1) corresponding to paint she applied to a sculptural object and pedestal in the gallery each day. Folding and manipulating her own self-portrait, Viir comments on the artist’s compulsion to replicate a style or self in relation to art world demands. At the same time, her challenge to the physical integrity of the photographs asks us to recognize them as tangible objects rather than immaterial images, in dialogue with each other and with architectural space.