Les Traductions
2021, embroidery and ink on handmade paper
Digital images and information disseminate across the globe thanks to the immediacy of the Internet. Thousands of copies and reproductions proliferate as we consume more and more content, day by day. Copies and reproductions that may not truthfully represent the reality they seek to imitate, leading to an understanding of reality that is compromised.
As our reliance on and credulity of digital media threatens our sense of reality, we may parry its impacts by returning to the tactile, for it is materiality that separates the digital from the handmade. Using handmade techniques at each stage of the process, Les Traductions places emphasis on the handmade in contention with the digital, exploring the way in which reproductions may transform the meaning of the original and the effect this has on our perception of the original.
Molly Pemberton 