Decontextualisation
Regina Virserius works on a giant scale, on the spectacularisation of emotions rendered readable on the faces thanks to the powerful technical means of film recording.
Their capture from the TV screen places the re-presentations within photographic practice but the digital environment reconfigures the image as a mosaic of pixels that equally harks back to pictoral procedures. The freeze frames are like rapid note-taking of expressive physiognomies isolated in their temporality and spatiality, assembled to create a map of possible "emotions".  More...