Faith Bye - Untitled #1, 2024
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 28 x 38 cm
Image Dimensions: 7.62 x 25.4 cm
Edition of 2
Framed only
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In her contemporary printmaking practice, Faith Bye investigates found film photographs as fragmentary — concrete objects representative of fleeting moments.
The existence of a printed photograph indicates its value; in taking and printing a photograph, the original owner intended to memorialize a scene. Though Bye, having not known either the photographers or subjects, approaches the collected images she incorporates into her practice as a member of a third party, as such the original context of the depicted scenes are lost. Believing that this ambiguity is freeing, however, she further obscures the collected photographs, choosing to instead highlight their inherently human and less specific qualities: fingerprints, tears and rips and handwriting. The unspecific, visually abstracted identities of photographed subjects invite the viewer to interpret scenes according to their own experiences, facilitating a unique relationship between strangers distanced temporally and geographically, and ultimately convincing the viewer that these scraps of human existence are compelling and artful.
Faith Bye is a fourth year BFA student at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Her work has been exhibited locally in BC as well as internationally in Bulgaria where she has participated in Lessedra Art Gallery’s ‘Lessedra World Art Print Annual’.
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 28 x 38 cm
Image Dimensions: 7.62 x 25.4 cm
Edition of 2
Framed only
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £12.00 (framed only).
In her contemporary printmaking practice, Faith Bye investigates found film photographs as fragmentary — concrete objects representative of fleeting moments.
The existence of a printed photograph indicates its value; in taking and printing a photograph, the original owner intended to memorialize a scene. Though Bye, having not known either the photographers or subjects, approaches the collected images she incorporates into her practice as a member of a third party, as such the original context of the depicted scenes are lost. Believing that this ambiguity is freeing, however, she further obscures the collected photographs, choosing to instead highlight their inherently human and less specific qualities: fingerprints, tears and rips and handwriting. The unspecific, visually abstracted identities of photographed subjects invite the viewer to interpret scenes according to their own experiences, facilitating a unique relationship between strangers distanced temporally and geographically, and ultimately convincing the viewer that these scraps of human existence are compelling and artful.
Faith Bye is a fourth year BFA student at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Her work has been exhibited locally in BC as well as internationally in Bulgaria where she has participated in Lessedra Art Gallery’s ‘Lessedra World Art Print Annual’.
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 28 x 38 cm
Image Dimensions: 7.62 x 25.4 cm
Edition of 2
Framed only
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £12.00 (framed only).
In her contemporary printmaking practice, Faith Bye investigates found film photographs as fragmentary — concrete objects representative of fleeting moments.
The existence of a printed photograph indicates its value; in taking and printing a photograph, the original owner intended to memorialize a scene. Though Bye, having not known either the photographers or subjects, approaches the collected images she incorporates into her practice as a member of a third party, as such the original context of the depicted scenes are lost. Believing that this ambiguity is freeing, however, she further obscures the collected photographs, choosing to instead highlight their inherently human and less specific qualities: fingerprints, tears and rips and handwriting. The unspecific, visually abstracted identities of photographed subjects invite the viewer to interpret scenes according to their own experiences, facilitating a unique relationship between strangers distanced temporally and geographically, and ultimately convincing the viewer that these scraps of human existence are compelling and artful.
Faith Bye is a fourth year BFA student at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Her work has been exhibited locally in BC as well as internationally in Bulgaria where she has participated in Lessedra Art Gallery’s ‘Lessedra World Art Print Annual’.
