Enrico Nagel

I first learned about Enri­co Nagel’s work through a sub­mis­sion, and he has a lot of inter­est­ing stuff on his web­site. They include: Por­traits cre­at­ed on a scan­ner bed that don’t rely on a the gaze of a pho­tog­ra­ph­er; Replac­ing mod­els’ heads with flow­ers; Replac­ing many heads with inan­i­mate objects. Much of his work is pho­to­graph­ic col­lage, which as we can see has an odd way of mak­ing any­thing believ­able. I think it’s the fact that our brain is trained to believe that pho­tog­ra­phy isn’t a lie, so to see it used as a col­lage ele­ment can cre­ate a cog­ni­tive dissonance.

All images via his web­site.