Fabian Albertini: Black Sea I
for General Public

In Black Sea, Fabian Albertini overpaints photographs to explore the idea of waves as a transformative disturbance. The artist likens the power and chaos of a wave to its parallels in the psyche – getting lost in the abyss and finding yourself again, questioning perception and our relationship to nature. The flat objectiveness of the photo contrasts with the immediacy and tactility of hand-applied paint, each lending the other new urgency.

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