SARA OSCAR The Mute & Counterfactual Departures Series
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SARA OSCAR
The Mute & Counterfactual Departures Series
Sara Oscar's recent photographic work uses machine learning to reclaim moments forever lost, notably the artists mothers emigration story from Thailand in the 1970s. Oscar works within and against the visual language of documentary photography, with its familiar iconography and subjects shaped by a Western gaze.
Despite being artificially generated, it is telling that we read these photographs, the racial subjects depicted in them, the gestures of the feminine, as deeply embedded in the cosmology of photography as a way of seeing and being.
Despite being artificially generated, it is telling that we read these photographs, the racial subjects depicted in them, the gestures of the feminine, as deeply embedded in the cosmology of photography as a way of seeing and being.