About Face

About Face investigates notions of survival and ageing/fragility and mortality as well as visual folklore—what happens when a narrative constructed from facial recognition mutates and is passed down by a succession of storytellers. • The first generation produces the idealized scenario; actors are assembled and an emblematic version of the story is manufactured. • The second iteration involves the distribution of these constructed images that propel the story ideas into public spaces. • The third adaptation—mine and influenced by the tenets of New Realism—describes how wear and tear, weather and circumstance combined with extracted details and a striking conversion in scale dramatically changes visual perception and emotive content.