Carrie Schneider: Double Negatives

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"In the ongoing body of work Double Negatives (2020), I play up the tension between the
camera’s exactitude and its capacity for abstraction, using techniques that invite discord into
the otherwise rational photographic process. Using an idiosyncratic technique I developed
over the course of a year and hundreds of tests, I am shooting chromogenic “paper negatives”
in a large format 11x14 Deardorff camera. The analog process renders a reversed subject,
and overlaying multiple exposures builds up and obliterates recognizable forms and textures
over time. There is an element of chance that determines the final composition, and this spirit
of improvisation guides the process: photographing drawn and painted elements including
spray paint, charcoal, wax, ink and acrylic, collaging shards of mirror and glass, as well as the
human figure, captured in person or virtually (increasingly, in a Covid era). Just as important
as my material investigations, my relationship to subject matter offers something very
personal, immediate, intuitive and urgent: portraits of women artists, the front page of the
New York Times, spray-painted concrete, natural specimens found near my studio in upstate
New York, and protest signs. The result is a heavily layered surface that is simultaneously
unified and divided." --Carrie Schneider

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