Annamieke Engelbrecht

PAINTING SERIES / BEGUN 2019

144p

A slow response to an instant world.

I began 144p in early 2019 as a response to the speed of internet culture and my own appetite for immediate satisfaction. Working from YouTube images at their lowest resolution, I translate fleeting digital fragments into layered oil paintings.

The series was conceived as 144 individual paintings: a painstaking reconstruction of a tiny moment within an ever-expanding stream of images. The slow material process asks what happens when an image designed to be consumed instantly is given sustained attention.

144p — installation view
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