Sabrina Zor

Sabrina Zor

Arts et design
LCI Melbourne

Agents

Sabrina Zor’s work is an ethnographic exploration of subconscious agency. In her work, she is mapping the instinctual and habitual human actions shaped by the ubiquitous smartphones. Painting directly from photographs and selfies taken by the subjects themselves, provides a threshold into the intensity of the gaze and intimacy of the face, presenting disparate moments and expressions of the subject’s identity that initiates a shared visceral experience between the viewer and each portrait. The use of watercolour on synthetic paper results in the mark-making and colour of the medium being slightly determined by chance. In this sense, the medium becomes agentic, as it creates and blends its own colour and texture that clash against each other to produce harsh and intense lines and marks that appear almost repetitive with each portrait. Therefore, establishing a metaphorical relationship with the material to the obsessive and instinctual nature of the selfie.

watercolour on synth

Agents

watercolour on synthetic paper

watercolour on synth