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Desiree Palmen's photos of camouflaged people

February 27, 2008 5:11pm

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"Today's increasing public use of surveillance and electronic identification systems spurred artist Desiree Palmen to create work focused on the theme of camouflage. In photography, video, and installation pieces, she explores the artistic possibilities of people dissapearing into their surroundings. In those disappearances, clothing plays a crucial role: a suit is painted like its model's background, viewed from a certain angle; a shirt covers a body and then extends to cover a tabletop, confusing the contour of body and table. Palmen's photographs of these scenes call attention to how their own perspectives enable the function of camouflage, and to how the function of camouflage depends on perspective."

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