Alexia Psaltis
Hunter School of the Performing Arts
- Artwork title
- Subsumed
- HSC year
- 2014
- ARTEXPRESS year
- 2015
- Expressive form
- Photomedia
- Artist’s statement
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Subsumed is a series of portraits representing the threat to physical, spiritual and psychological identity from rampant industrialisation. The portraits identify how the dominance of industry removes individual human inspiration and imagination. We face a future of surreal, stunted landscapes populated by impaired humanity, symbolised by the replacement of human physicality with machinery. I photographed all the images of industrial structures, objects and landscapes that convey destruction and invasion. I layered these eclectic images with the human portraits to represent the unchecked, pervasive presence of industrial processes in our lives. We are consumed by industry and its detritus.
Influencing artists: Loretta Lux, Jeffrey Smart, Wolfgang Sievers, Rob Dobi
Collection connections
The portraits created by Alexia Psaltis and Loretta Lux go beyond just capturing the physical appearance of the sitter. Describe what you see and discuss how the artists have pushed the definition of portraiture in their work.
Create images of people as an artistic vehicle to say something more.
